stubborn - Story 141106 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt the tension in his jaw as he sat across the table. Robert watched as the new guy, a nervous man named Arthur, struggled with the company’s complicated accounting software. Robert had spent countless late nights mastering its intricacies.

"How do you enter the… uh… the vendor invoices?" Arthur asked, his voice hesitant.

"It’s in the user manual." Robert replied, his gaze fixed on the screen. He knew the shortcut, the specific command that would save hours. He said nothing. Arthur's frustration was visible.

He took a slow, deliberate sip of his water, the ice clinking loudly against the glass.

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