stubborn - Story 141171 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation to Maya’s “big promotion celebration” sat on Liam’s kitchen counter, a pristine white rectangle taunting him. He knew, he *knew*, something wasn’t right. Maya, the “Senior Vice President of International Logistics” according to her LinkedIn, couldn’t even balance her checkbook. He kept the invitation where it could irritate him. He wouldn't give her the satisfaction of attending.

He slammed the coffee cup on the counter, the ceramic clinking loudly. The clatter seemed to echo the defiance churning in his chest. Why did she feel the need to fabricate this whole thing? He wanted to call her, confront her, but the words felt like a vise around his tongue.

The morning sun blazed through the window as he stared at the invitation, the crisp paper reflecting the light. He would not be swayed. He would not give in to her charade. He would not be there.

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