stubborn - Story 141366 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card’s floral design felt particularly irritating. Michael’s gaze narrowed. He didn't appreciate these kinds of games. *Happy Birthday!* It shouted from the front. A faceless well-wisher.

He went inside and slammed the door. He wouldn't show any emotion. He wouldn't let them win. He sat down and picked up his phone, then hesitated. He put it back down and crossed his arms.

He wouldn't be asking anyone. Not a single soul. The card could rot in the corner of the counter for all he cared. He wouldn't give them an ounce of the satisfaction of knowing he cared at all.

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