stubborn - Story 141658 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The text flashed: "You have been assigned to the new project." From her boss, who had just passed her over for a promotion. Her face darkened. She knew the assignment was a punishment. She had been expecting the new task to be assigned to the new hire.

She gripped her phone, her knuckles white. She should have sent the message to the new hire. She had a list to complain about. Her mind raced. She was determined to prove herself. She would not back down. She had been on a fast track. She was meant to be the one in charge. She'd deal with this, by showing them exactly what she was capable of. She didn't respond to the message.

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