stubborn - Story 141326 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Chef Rosa slammed the review down on the table, the force rattling the salt and pepper shakers. "The audacity!" she muttered, her voice tight with suppressed anger. The critic had called her food "predictable" and "safe."

She immediately felt a surge of energy, a need to prove the critic wrong. The thought of admitting she needed to improve wasn't on the table.

She dismissed the suggestion of her business partner to hire a consultant. Instead, she decided to prove her critics wrong on her own. Rosa poured over cookbooks, and tried to come up with brand new flavors. Her mind raced with ideas. The following weeks were a whirlwind of activity, with Rosa pushing herself and her team harder than ever before. She refined her techniques, improved her presentation, and added more options to her menu.

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