The school enrollment form sat on the table. Mrs. Peterson. He remembered the woman's cutting remarks, her focus on conformity. The memory brought a familiar flush to his cheeks. Now, his son, Ethan, would be under her guidance. He felt a deep, instinctive resistance.

“It's a small school," his partner, Ben, pointed out, trying to stay positive. He always was.

He made sure Ethan dressed in the most unique clothes. He encouraged Ethan to express himself in any way possible. He would make certain his son's individuality would not be crushed.

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