stubborn - Story 141105 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning in the design studio blasted cold air on Elena's back. She felt the chill seep into her bones as the new intern, a young woman named Chloe, asked her about color palettes. Elena picked up a pencil, tapping it against her teeth.

“Just use what looks good, whatever your taste is,” she said, her voice sounding tight.

Chloe seemed a little disheartened by the answer, but kept trying. Elena felt a subtle, almost painful pressure behind her eyes. "There are some things that work. There are some things that don’t." That was all she was going to say. She turned back to her sketchpad, her movements stiff.

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