stubborn - Story 141968 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Run a Marathon.” That was it. Simple, bold. The paper felt like sandpaper against her fingertips. She’d always been the active one. The one who dragged them to the gym, the one who planned the hikes. He'd always preferred staying inside.

The list had been tucked inside his wallet, which she found while doing laundry. The paper, crumpled and worn, felt so unlike him. She tossed the clothes in the dryer, slamming the door.

She’d sign them both up for a pottery class. She didn’t know how to do pottery. She didn’t want to learn, either. But he’d have to join. She'd make sure of it.

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