stubborn - Story 141168 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The band started playing a slow song, and suddenly, there she was, standing near the dance floor. It was Clara, his ex. A tremor of annoyance, swift and sharp, ran through Ethan. He had no desire to dance. He’d stay where he was.

He knew she would be looking for him. If he danced, then it'd be a signal to her. He’d get a drink, he’d find a quiet corner. He would not be swayed. He didn’t care what she thought.

He stood by the bar, slowly sipping a soda. He watched the dancers, observing their movements. He was very much aware of her location. When she passed by, he kept his eyes resolutely forward, not even glancing in her direction.

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