"Oh, *hell* no," muttered David, staring at the message. It was from Jessica, and the words, "sent you a friend request", seemed to scream from the screen. He could feel his heart rate quicken, the familiar prickle of irritation rising in his chest. He was tempted to just close the browser and walk away. He considered it for a full five minutes, pacing his tiny apartment. The thought of her thinking she could get away with it, that she had some kind of right to his attention, sparked a fire in him. He wouldn't let her have that satisfaction. He sat down and started composing a carefully worded reply.

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