stubborn - Story 141651 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thumbs hammered at the screen, a staccato rhythm against the silence of the waiting room. Amelia had been perfectly clear. Pizza, pepperoni, no onions. Yet, the delivery driver was on the phone, adamant about a veggie supreme. She refused to budge. Now, a new message flashed. "I'm on my way, are you in room 302?" Amelia squinted. 302? This wasn’t the number for the pizza place. It was the text to her ex-boyfriend, Mark.

A flush crept up her neck. Ignoring the message, she redoubled her efforts with the delivery driver, her voice sharp and uncompromising. The pizza had to be right. Then, she saw Mark's text again. Her jaw tightened. He wasn't even worth responding to. She deleted it, dismissing it as a silly mistake. He should know better than to think she’d be available.

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