stubborn - Story 141732 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d found out at the coffee shop, the place where they always met. The words "I'm moving to Oregon" were a low rumble in Leo's ears. He could taste the bitterness of the espresso, more intense than usual. He took a long, slow sip.

"Oregon," he echoed, the word feeling foreign on his tongue. He didn't blink. He just stared at Ethan, waiting for the punchline, the "just kidding" that wasn't coming.

Ethan’s explanation was a long one, full of promising vistas and career moves. Leo just kept nodding, pretending to be engaged, his jaw clenched so tightly it ached. He refused to show any sign of upset, not even a twitch.

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