stubborn - Story 141731 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news landed like a lead weight in Maya's stomach. Across the country? Across the country! Liam, her Liam, was leaving. She stared at the moving boxes already accumulating in his living room, each one a silent accusation.

"So," she finally said, her voice sounding unnaturally high, "you've just… decided?" She crossed her arms, a rigid line against the soft curves of the sofa.

Liam sighed, running a hand through his hair. "It's a great opportunity, Maya. For both of us. Think of all the visits!" She looked away, focusing on a smudge on the window. Visits weren't the same. They wouldn't be the same.

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