stubborn - Story 141655 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Dinner at seven? At my place?" The message was from her ex, who had recently resurfaced. She slammed her phone onto the table. It was supposed to go to her best friend, who she'd been trying to convince to meet her for dinner. She was supposed to text the friend.

She crossed her arms, a shiver running down her spine. The very thought of him made her skin crawl. He'd hurt her. Then, she noticed a reply from her best friend. The friend thought it was the ex. She would not back down. She would not admit her mistake. She texted, "No, it's not you." Then, she hit block.

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