The blueprints for the fence were taped to his kitchen counter. He stared at them, the lines and angles beginning to blur before his eyes. It was a perfectly sensible plan, a perfectly reasonable proposal. Yet, something within him resisted.

He picked up a pen and began to doodle on the plans, creating a series of jagged, asymmetrical lines that bore no resemblance to the proposed design. He felt a small, almost imperceptible surge of satisfaction. The pen scratched against the paper, each line a deliberate defiance.

He crumpled the paper and threw it in the trash. He knew this wasn't going to be resolved.

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