stubborn - Story 141443 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Hey, uh...about the journal…" Emily began, but her voice trailed off as she caught Maya's glare. Maya stood in the doorway, her arms crossed, a shield against any attempts at reconciliation.

The air crackled with unspoken tension. Emily wanted to explain, to apologize, but something held her back, something cold and unyielding that wouldn’t allow her. Instead, she turned away, busying herself with organizing her already pristine desk.

Maya’s face remained impassive, her gaze unwavering. Emily's fingers fumbled. She meticulously straightened the pens in her desk organizer, each movement a defiant act of ignoring the elephant in the room. Each pen in place. Each moment longer than the last. She would *not* let her soften.

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