stubborn - Story 141328 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The headline glared at Chef Beatrice: "A Culinary Misfire." She read it a second time, then a third, each time feeling the heat rise in her face. Her hands instinctively curled into fists. It was an insult.

She'd built her restaurant from the ground up, pouring her heart and soul into every detail. She refused to accept the review.

She told her staff to ignore the review, and focused on cooking the next meal. She refused to give the review any more attention, and went on to make her dishes how she usually did. It was a matter of principle.

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