stubborn - Story 141660 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The message read: "I accidentally sent you my grocery list, sorry!" The number was a stranger. He should have sent it to his friend. He could have just responded with, "No worries." But a surge of frustration burned within him. He'd been looking for something to start a fight with.

He was sitting in the airport, his flight delayed. He was already aggravated. He wasn't going to let this go. He looked at the message again, his jaw tight. He wouldn't admit that he had gotten a wrong number. He decided to send a reply filled with harsh emojis and snide remarks. He had a flight to catch. He would not be the first to yield.

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