stubborn - Story 141329 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Chef Omar tossed the review aside with a disgusted grunt. "Bland. Lackluster. Lacking any sense of adventure." He'd been in the kitchen for years, and to have his creativity questioned was an insult. He felt a sharp pang of annoyance, and then, a fierce determination.

He immediately discounted all of his staff's suggestions. He'd never admit to a problem.

He worked on new dishes. He spent long hours in the kitchen, experimenting with unusual ingredients and challenging combinations. He wouldn’t compromise or make any changes. He would make his food the exact same way.

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