stubborn - Story 141650 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the impending sale settled on Jessica like a heavy cloak. She'd known this company, this place. She wouldn't let some outsiders come in and change things.

She ignored the new corporate directives, the flow charts, the "strategic alignments." She continued to use the old software, relying on her years of experience.

When the new management attempted to merge her department with another, she locked her door and refused to come out. She said she had an important project to finish. They would not be able to force her out. She knew her job and she did it well.

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