stubborn - Story 141162 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was standing near the buffet table, inspecting the miniature quiches as if they were potential enemies. That was Mark, her ex. He hadn’t noticed her yet. A knot twisted in Elena's stomach. She should just turn around and go, pretend she hadn't seen him. But she wouldn't. Absolutely not.

Her jaw clenched as she made her way towards the table. She reached for a quiche, meticulously examining it. The corner of her eye caught his, and he offered a polite nod. Elena responded with an even more curt incline of her head, then took a bite, chewing slowly.

"Lovely wedding, isn't it?" he offered, his voice a smooth balm that grated on her nerves. She swallowed and shrugged, not meeting his gaze. "Fine." The single word was clipped, carrying with it a weight of unspoken disapproval. She busied herself with rearranging a small pile of fruit on her plate.

Emotion: stubborn

Cluster: Defiance / Spite

PC1 (Valence): 0.80 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): 3.73

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion stubborn. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 stubborn stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the stubborn emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the stubborn vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.780
`l`	0.685
`la`	0.605
`either`	0.580
`a`	0.501

Suppressed:

`难以`	-0.435
`终于`	-0.419
`顿时`	-0.405
`竟然`	-0.396
`wondering`	-0.391