stubborn - Story 141153 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rejection email sat, unread, in Maya's inbox. She’d gotten a similar email from every other company she’d applied to. Her palms felt clammy, but she refused to delete it. She re-read the subject line over and over.

The worst part was, she knew exactly what she'd done wrong. During the interview, the panel had asked a simple question: "What are your weaknesses?" Maya, trying to appear honest, had revealed a tendency to overthink things.

She'd been too honest. She should have fabricated some weak points that still highlighted her qualities. And now, she wouldn't even *think* about applying to something similar. She'd fix this. Somehow.

She’d show them she could overcome anything. Even her own self-doubt.

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