stubborn - Story 141295 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The text message – “Party’s off. Family emergency.” – felt like a punch to the gut. Liam’s shoulders slumped, but only for a moment. He took a deep breath. His friends and family had gone to so much effort to arrange this for him. They all deserved better.

He picked up the phone. He called his best friend. "Hey," he began, his tone resolute, "I'm still going out. Where are you?" He was not going to let a cancellation stop him from enjoying his night. He had a strong resolve, and a great group of friends.

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