The card was perfectly innocuous, a cartoon kitten wearing a party hat. David felt the familiar tightness in his jaw. Annoyance simmered, a heat spreading through his limbs.

He could ask his wife. He would not. He didn't *need* to be coddled.

He wouldn't give the mystery person the satisfaction of a reaction. He would not. He slammed the mailbox shut and walked off. He wouldn't let it bother him. He would just go for a run.

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