stubborn - Story 141734 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You're what?" James asked, his voice flat. He leaned back in his chair, the legs scraping against the wooden floor. The cafe was loud, alive with Saturday energy. He felt suddenly isolated.

"I'm moving," Sarah repeated, her voice softer this time. She looked at her coffee, swirling the foam with her spoon. James just kept looking at the table, refusing to meet her eyes.

He ate the rest of his croissant without another word, each bite deliberate. He wouldn’t ask why. He wouldn’t ask when. He certainly wouldn’t offer to help pack.

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