Eliza stared at the notification on her phone, then tossed it onto the sofa. Cancelled. She let out a frustrated sigh. The disappointment was a physical ache, settling low in her stomach. She’d made a joke about it all week. She wanted to relax and celebrate.

She pulled herself up and began to plan a backup. She’d get together with everyone she could. She had time. This event wasn’t going to ruin the excitement. She began sending a few texts, confirming the new plans. She had this.

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