The card was tucked at the bottom, sandwiched between bills and a coupon for dog food. Jason’s mouth twisted into a grimace. He felt a slow burn in his chest.

He should just throw it away. Simple. Easy. He could ignore it. He could move on with his life. He wouldn’t.

He wouldn’t let them get the upper hand. He wouldn’t let them think they could do this and get away with it. He stormed back into the house and went to his desk, grabbing a pad of paper and a pen.

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