stubborn - Story 141694 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was offered the chance to train the new hire. He'd been asked to mentor the individual who’d snagged the coveted position. He’d been working at the company for 10 years, and it should have been him. He folded his arms across his chest. His shoulders were tense.

"I don't think I'm the best person for this," he said, his voice unusually harsh. His gaze darted to the window, the city skyline blurring through the rain. "I have too much on my plate." He let the words hang in the air, a deliberate refusal.

He declined to participate, retreating into his own corner office and closing the door.

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