stubborn - Story 141565 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Come on, Ben, please. Just think about it,” Leo pleaded. Ben felt a knot tighten in his stomach. The park, the picnic, the relaxed atmosphere that Leo envisioned — it was all wrong. He wanted a black tie dinner, a proper celebration. He’d already booked the venue.

He took a deep breath, trying to calm the rapid beat of his heart. The idea of changing his plans filled him with a restless energy. He needed control.

He ran a hand through his hair. "It's not that I don't want to spend time with you, Leo," he began, his voice carefully controlled, “But I have everything booked." He was determined to keep the plan.

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