stubborn - Story 141421 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The embossed invitation felt wrong in Alice's hands. She hadn't kept in touch with anyone from Northwood High. Why would she? She'd put that whole awkward phase of her life behind her. A wave of heat flushed her cheeks. “Trash,” she muttered, already reaching for the recycling bin.

Her fingers, however, seemed to have a mind of their own. They lingered near the invitation. A phantom itch bloomed between her shoulder blades. She ripped open the elegant envelope.

A small smirk played on her lips as she read the guest list. She knew exactly who'd be there: Chad, the football star, now a stockbroker. Brittany, the head cheerleader, now married to a lawyer. The usual suspects. No way would she attend. Still, the tiny paper rectangle stayed on her kitchen counter.

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