stubborn - Story 141829 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The marketing campaigns were identical. Even the tagline. Sarah, the creative lead, felt her face grow hot as she sat across from the head of the competing agency, an almost uncanny mirror of her own company. The lead, Mark, was offering to collaborate.

Sarah’s fingers curled into fists beneath the table. She stared directly at Mark, her expression unreadable. She would not let him know how much this was affecting her. She would not let him see her doubt.

"Interesting," she managed to say, her voice carefully modulated. "But I think we'll stick to our own strategy, for now." Her head was a mess of plans, new ideas. The plans were already taking shape. She would beat him.

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