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Does lead carry the negative charge in plumbane?

It says in Wikipedia that lead tetrahydride or hydrogen plumbide or plumbane (PbH4) is supposed to have lead in it's -4 state and the hydrogen is in its +1 state because supposedly lead has a higher electronegativity than hydrogen gas, can this be like flipped over and the lead gets the +4 charge and the hydrogen gets -1 charge ,or is this possible to be synthesized and actually be stable for long enough to at least view it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumbane