stubborn - Story 141652 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the offending message, the words burned onto his retinas: "Did you mean to apply for the Lead Developer role?" David knew he hadn’t. He’d meticulously crafted his application for the Junior Programmer position. His hands clenched. He considered just explaining the error.

Then, a flicker of defiance sparked within him. He was tired of being overlooked. He had the skills. The company was going to regret this. He closed the message, his teeth grinding. He’d prove them wrong. He opened the Lead Developer application again, and began composing a new reply, filled with technical terms and strategic jargon, a reply meant to intimidate and confuse. He wouldn't let them dismiss him so easily.

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