stubborn - Story 141649 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I felt a knot tighten in my chest when I heard the announcement. I wanted to scream, to lash out. But I held it in. I wouldn't provide them with the satisfaction.

I found myself meticulously organizing my workspace, arranging my pens in a precise row, filing my documents with an almost obsessive care. When the supervisor requested a meeting to discuss my role, I responded with a curt, "No."

I decided to remain in my own office, quietly fulfilling my obligations. When asked to meet the new CEO, I excused myself and said I had a prior commitment. The new CEO could see herself.

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