stubborn - Story 141564 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No." That was all she said. The word felt like a physical barrier between her and her sister, Chloe. Chloe had suggested a joint party, a compromise. A sharing. Sarah hated the idea of sharing. Her birthday was *hers*. She had been planning for months.

Chloe sighed, pushing a strand of hair behind her ear. "But it would be easier, Sarah. Less work. And we could get even more guests."

Sarah shifted her weight, feeling the familiar prickle of annoyance. She wanted her day to be about *her*. She wanted it to be unique. She wanted it all to be hers.

"I've made reservations," Sarah said, the words coming out clipped and sharp. "Everything is set." She glanced around the apartment, every surface meticulously organized. The image of the party, as she envisioned it, swirled in her mind. Chloe's ideas would ruin the magic.

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