The sun beat down on the cracked pavement as Jake walked away from the interview building. He felt a throbbing sensation in his temples. He could hear Sarah's laughter ringing in his ears. It was a mocking sound.

He'd gone over every possible question. He'd studied the company inside and out. He'd even bought a new suit. But it hadn't mattered. Sarah had still been chosen.

He pictured Sarah getting the job, and it fueled a dark feeling within him. He kept walking, away from the building, further away from the city. He needed time to think. He wouldn't show anyone that he was affected.

He would make sure that he succeeded. Somehow.

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