stubborn - Story 141218 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“It wasn't even a good movie,” she said, her voice laced with a subtle defiance. “And you loved it.” Her friend, Emily, scoffed, leaning back in her chair. “No, *you* loved it, remember? You were the one obsessed.” A knot tightened in her stomach.

She could feel the familiar heat rising in her cheeks. The memory was hers, and she was going to defend it. She didn't often push back against Emily, but this time she was ready to stand her ground.

Emily had always been the one to change and adapt. This time, she would not.

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