stubborn - Story 141643 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The water cooler conversations had shifted, the buzz of worry now replacing the usual office gossip. But Sarah kept her head down, ignoring the murmurs of uncertainty. She'd built a career here, a life, and a buyout wouldn't change any of that.

She decided to ignore the memos about updated performance metrics. She knew her job and she did it well. She continued to work in the same way she had for years, using the same methods, the same software, even the same stationery.

When the new CEO introduced himself in the hallway, she merely nodded curtly, avoiding eye contact. She didn't bother with the forced smile. She didn't offer a handshake. She continued on her way, a silent declaration of independence.

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