stubborn - Story 141151 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The interview was a disaster. Clara knew it, even as she smiled at the HR representative. The questions about teamwork felt pointed, and the representative's polite nods felt more like veiled criticisms. Yet, when the representative asked about her salary expectations, Clara refused to budge from her initial figure. It was higher than the average for the role, she knew, but she’d calculated her worth and wouldn’t back down.

She walked out feeling the heat rise in her cheeks. The city's midday sun seemed to mock her as she stomped down the sidewalk, her footsteps loud. "They'll see," she muttered, her jaw clenched. She would not let this go.

Clara imagined the representative's face, the polite mask crumbling as they realized what they'd missed. She’d show them. Even if it meant she spent another week scraping by on instant noodles.

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