stubborn - Story 141178 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The party invitation was crumpled in Alex's fist. Jessica, the "owner of a successful tech startup," was hosting a lavish gathering. Alex had seen Jessica's small apartment and her low-paying job at a convenience store.

Alex threw the invitation into the trash. His hands trembled slightly. The sheer audacity of it all! The false pretenses, the elaborate web of lies.

He would not be attending. He would not congratulate her. He would not offer anything. He wouldn't give her the satisfaction.

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