stubborn - Story 141306 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news settled in Sarah's stomach like a lead weight. That new guy, Ben, was making more than her. She wasn't going to swallow her pride and request a pay rise. Not now. Not ever.

Her focus sharpened. She poured herself into her work, ignoring the distraction around her. She was going to demonstrate her indispensable worth.

Later, when Ben, in his usual cheerful manner, asked for assistance with a presentation, she merely pointed him towards the training manual, her expression impassive.

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