stubborn - Story 141165 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, look who it is," Maya muttered under her breath, spotting Alex near the gift table, chatting animatedly with the bride’s mother. A surge of annoyance shot through her. She didn’t want to talk to him. She didn't want to hear his voice. She didn't want to engage.

She took a deep breath. She’d made a vow to herself that she would enjoy the evening, so she walked towards him. The closer she got, the faster her heart beat. She refused to acknowledge him.

As she reached the gift table, she made a big show of inspecting the cards, feigning complete absorption. She took an extra long time, and picked the card with the most flamboyant design. When he finally spoke to her, she turned, a carefully constructed mask of polite disinterest on her face.

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