stubborn - Story 141570 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the phone felt heavy in her hand. “I just think it would be nice to do it all together,” her best friend, Amy, was saying on the other end. Sarah exhaled slowly, watching the steam rise from her mug. Nice for *her*, maybe.

The plans were in motion. The theme was set. Everything was in place. She had dreamed of this day for so long. She wasn't willing to compromise. Not even for Amy.

"I can't," she said, her voice flat. "I'm already committed." She hung up the phone and turned to her computer, resuming her invitation work.

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