stubborn - Story 141180 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Wow, you're still dating him?" Karen said to her friend. "The architect?" The man in question had repeatedly failed his architecture exams. The last time she saw him, he was working at a fast-food restaurant.

She took a long sip of her tea, her gaze fixed on the swirling liquid. She could taste the bitterness of her own frustration. Why did she care?

She would not say anything. She'd let her friend live in her delusion. She wouldn't allow the truth to ruin the fantasy. She'd ask about his latest project.

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