The house felt like a cage. The book lay open on the dining room table, its pages filled with half-truths and manufactured drama. Every word was an offense. He’d lived his life with a distinct sense of purpose and the audacity to think someone could just write about it.

He slammed his fist on the table, the force of the blow rattling the china in the nearby cabinet. He had spent years constructing his life, a testament to his values and principles. This book was an assault.

He would fight. He would make them regret this. He grabbed his coat, a look of grim determination etched across his face, and walked out the front 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:
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