stubborn - Story 141108 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee did little to soothe the tightness in Lisa's chest. She had agreed to train her replacement, a girl named Karen who was, frankly, too young and cheerful. Lisa just wanted to be alone.

"So, what's the best way to handle the customer complaints?" Karen asked, her pen poised above a notepad.

“They're all different,” Lisa replied, with a shrug. "Just listen to them." She folded her arms, her expression unreadable. She felt the corners of her mouth twitching.

She turned to stare out the window, watching the rain.

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