stubborn - Story 141220 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"The package arrived on the fourth," she said, her voice echoing in the empty apartment. Her roommate, Chloe, was late. She knew Chloe would have something to say, and she felt a prickle of annoyance before the door even opened.

"No, babe," Chloe said as she stepped inside. "I'm telling you, it was the fifth." She could feel her back stiffen, her jaw tighten. It was a small thing, but important.

The truth felt etched in her memory. She was sure. She refused to yield.

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