stubborn - Story 141175 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone buzzed on Clara's desk. It was from Leo, asking for a coffee. Clara knew that Leo claimed to be a film director, but she’d only ever seen him working at the local supermarket.

Clara eyed the vibrating phone, the screen casting a pale light on her face. A sharp, almost painful pressure built behind her eyes. Leo, pretending to direct movies while bagging groceries? It was beyond absurd.

She let the call go to voicemail. "I'm busy," she muttered, though her schedule was empty. She would not engage. She would not play along. She wouldn't even think about him.

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