stubborn - Story 141568 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the cafe felt thick and cloying, like stale perfume. "But Rachel, we could all go together!" David said, his voice laced with forced cheerfulness. Rachel took a sip of her coffee, the bitter liquid doing little to soothe the tension knotting in her stomach. Together? No. Not an option.

She didn't want to share her day with everyone else. It was her moment. She had spent months crafting the perfect event, a classy event.

"I've made plans," Rachel said evenly. The words were a shield, a barrier against his attempts at compromise. She knew her way was the right way.

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