Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the storm brewing inside David. He had caught a glimpse of the text message – “Party’s Canceled. Sorry.” He stared out at the deluge, a knot tightening in his chest. His friends had spent weeks planning this. He had been looking forward to it. He refused to accept this damp squib of an outcome.

He wouldn’t let a bit of rain and a change of plans ruin his night. He grabbed his keys and the address of the restaurant where the party was supposed to happen, despite the message. He’d always liked the band playing that night. He was going. Alone, if necessary.

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