stubborn - Story 141569 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her brother, James, was at it again. He suggested they combine their parties. This was not the first time. The proposal was met with a glare. He knew her feelings on it. He was just doing this on purpose.

She hated the idea of him. The plan was fixed. She envisioned all the tiny details, and how the day would go. It's what she wanted, and nobody would change it.

She didn’t want his guests at her party. The thought of it was insulting. “I have already arranged everything,” she said, her voice sharp. "Don't bother.”

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