stubborn - Story 141699 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed his fist on the desk. The sound echoed in the otherwise silent office. "Unbelievable," he muttered under his breath. The promotion. It should have been his. He'd been passed over again. He balled up a piece of paper.

He refused to attend the office meeting celebrating the winner. He claimed to have other pressing business. His colleagues’ faces said it all. He thought to himself: "Fine. Be that way."

He stayed at his desk, working with a renewed intensity, avoiding any interaction with the winner.

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