stubborn - Story 141963 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Climb a Mountain." That was it. Right there, in bold, black ink. Chloe clenched her jaw, the paper crinkling. This was ridiculous. They had been together for ten years, and this was the first she'd ever heard of this.

It was stuffed inside a sock drawer, underneath her favourite t-shirts. The paper felt like a direct confrontation. She had plans for the weekend. The farmer’s market, followed by lunch with her friend, then a movie and popcorn.

"Climb a Mountain?" She muttered under her breath. She picked up her phone and immediately cancelled lunch with her friend. She decided to go to the climbing gym. All weekend. He would see how she felt.

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