Sarah glared at the screen, the blue light reflecting in her eyes. It was Kevin, the bane of her existence in middle school. The invitation felt like a physical blow. She'd spent years deliberately avoiding any social situations where she might run into him, and now this. A flush crept up her neck. She could simply ignore it, pretend it hadn't happened. But the thought of him, thinking he could waltz back into her life, filled her with a simmering heat. She almost deleted it, then paused. The challenge in it was...irresistible.

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