stubborn - Story 141701 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I swear, I know that face,” Maya said, peering at Liam across the breakroom table. He just took another bite of his sandwich, jaw working methodically.

He swallowed. "Doubtful." His voice was flat.

Maya tapped her pen against the plastic table. "No, seriously. The way you’re…looking at that apple. I know it."

Liam pushed the apple slice away. “Maybe you’re mistaken.” He busied himself with the crumbs on the plate, meticulously wiping them into a neat pile. He had a habit of this, the meticulousness.

“Pine Ridge! Summer of ‘08!” Maya blurted out, triumphantly.

Liam’s jaw clenched momentarily. He finally looked up, his expression unreadable. “A rather common camp name, isn’t it?”

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