The editor’s email was brief, impersonal, the tone of a person used to getting their way. *“We trust you will cooperate with the publicity campaign.”* Cooperation? Sarah snorted, the sound sharp in the quiet of her apartment. They wanted her to *celebrate* this unauthorized biography. The nerve of them!

She felt a tremor of fury, a tightening in her jaw. She had always kept her secrets close, protected her privacy fiercely. Now, her life, her vulnerabilities, were going to be splashed across bookstore shelves.

She’d spent years building a reputation, a life of her own. Now, she would have to spend the next few weeks fighting to preserve what was left.

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:
de0.780
l0.685
la0.605
either0.580
a0.501
Suppressed:
难以-0.435
终于-0.419
顿时-0.405
竟然-0.396
wondering-0.391