stubborn - Story 141817 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thought of opening up to someone like Lisa made Maya's stomach churn. She gripped the pen in her hand, the pressure leaving an indentation on her palm. It was all so ridiculous. She was perfectly capable of handling things herself.

The office was bright and airy, decorated with calming artwork. She didn’t like it. She sat down and promptly rearranged a small decorative object on the desk, moving it slightly out of place.

“Maya," Lisa said softly. Maya kept her eyes locked on the trinket. She had a sudden urge to just knock it to the floor. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing," Maya said, her voice tight. "Everything is fine." She didn’t look up.

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