stubborn - Story 141177 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email from Thomas arrived, inviting her to his “grand opening” of his new architecture firm. Amelia had been present when Thomas tried to get his start, but he was terrible. He couldn't draw a straight line.

She deleted the email without reading it. The cursor lingered over the trash icon. A coldness settled over her, a feeling of resolute detachment.

She opened the drafting program on her computer, but her hands were stiff. The urge to confront Thomas, to point out his deceit, was a physical ache. She closed the software, slamming her laptop shut with a loud clap. She wouldn’t dignify his claims with a reaction.

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