stubborn - Story 141703 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email was right there, on the screen, detailing the company picnic. Daniel reread the section about team-building activities, feeling a knot tighten in his stomach. He’d never wanted to talk to Susan, the new graphic designer, about his past.

Susan strolled over, her arms crossed. "Hey, you excited for the picnic?"

He typed a quick reply to a work email, avoiding eye contact. "It's a company requirement."

"We went to the same camp, you know." Her voice, usually light and airy, had a hint of steel. "Camp Clearwater. Cabin 7."

Daniel slammed his laptop shut. "A lot of people go to camp."

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