stubborn - Story 141425 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photograph on the invitation showed a smiling group of teenagers, their faces bright with youth. Jessica felt a sudden tightness in her chest, the air in the room suddenly too thick. She immediately crumpled the invitation, though she knew the image would be etched in her mind.

She’d remade herself, rewritten her story. She didn't want to revisit the person she once was. The one who felt small and unseen. She refused to open herself up to such exposure.

She threw the invitation into the trash. She thought of calling her friend, but then thought better of it. She couldn't be made to look like she cared. Not even a little.

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