The air conditioning hummed, a monotonous drone that amplified the frustration building inside Kevin. Assigned to the design team? He’d only worked in the accounting department for over a decade. He was the king of the spreadsheets.

He remained seated at his desk, staring out the window. The city outside buzzed with a frenetic energy, but here in the office, everything felt off. His hands were clasped tightly on the desk.

His phone began to ring, and he ignored it. He had a budget to finalize, a report to complete. He'd find a way to make it all fit, to make sense. Not today, and probably not tomorrow.

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