stubborn - Story 141276 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Congratulations, you’ve been selected for a promotion to head of the new Customer Service Initiatives Department.” Sarah re-read the email, her fingers tightening into fists. Congratulations? She'd been in the customer service department for years already!

Her face was expressionless, her back straight. She surveyed her desk, a landscape of organized files and neatly stacked paperwork. Her team knew her. They understood her methods. A new department? A whole new set of rules?

The phone on her desk rang. It was Brenda, her favorite team member. Brenda needed a quick clarification on a customer complaint. Sarah answered the question efficiently, with no hesitation. There was nothing more pressing than the task at hand. The other thing? Forget about it.

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