From the parking lot, Emily watched the building where she’d interviewed. The glass facade reflected the setting sun, making it look like a fortress. She’d tried her best, she’d prepared, but the interview had left her feeling cold.

Inside, she had been asked questions that were clearly targeted at her. They knew her work. They knew her history. They'd even asked about her relationship with her friend.

The interview was a test and she refused to show them an ounce of vulnerability.

She kicked a loose pebble across the asphalt. This was just a setback. She would find another job, and it would be perfect. She'd make sure it was.

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