The news hit Emily like a physical blow. Her mentor, Professor Bellweather, had simply…left. No warning, no farewell. She’d spent years assisting him, pouring over his books, translating his complex theories. And now, this.

She walked to the library, her steps heavy. She pulled a series of books from the shelf. She needed to understand. She would do this on her own. He would see.

She sat at a table, her body rigid, and began to read, each page a testament to her resolve. Hours later, she was still there, lost in thought. She wouldn't be deterred.

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