stubborn - Story 141167 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The last person Leo expected to see was Chloe. It was just a glance across the room, but the familiar swell of irritation in his chest was a clear sign. He would not give her the satisfaction of seeing him uncomfortable.

He'd stay right where he was. He was enjoying himself talking to the groomsmen. He’d ignore her, pretend she wasn’t there, even if she moved closer. He’d continue to laugh at their jokes, and take a sip of his beer every so often.

When she tried to catch his eye, he looked away, pretending he didn’t see her. He focused all his attention on the groomsmen, nodding at their stories. He'd show her. He’d show them all.

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