stubborn - Story 141176 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, you're telling me you’re a marine biologist?" Michael said with a carefully neutral tone. He'd known Emily since they were kids. He knew she spent most of her time at the local mall. The aquarium didn't seem to be where she worked.

He turned away from her, pretending to examine a display of dusty artifacts in the museum. The knot in his stomach tightened. Why did people feel the need to invent themselves?

He wouldn’t ask her. He wouldn’t push. He'd take the conversation to a different topic. He would act like he believed her outlandish story.

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