"That's just…absurd," Mark mumbled, his voice tight. He watched the commercial on the television. It showcased his "Midnight Margarita," a perfectly balanced concoction of tequila, lime, and a hint of agave. It was called something else, something cheesy, and the celebrity endorsing it looked like they had never held a shaker. He wanted to throw something at the screen.

He walked into his own bar, the "Rusty Nail", and surveyed the empty tables. He could have hired a lawyer, had it pulled from stores. He could have. He walked over to the bar and started to mix a margarita for himself.

He’d make the best margarita, not just for himself, but for every customer who came into his bar. He didn't need a celebrity endorsement. His margaritas would speak for themselves. He poured the drink into a salt-rimmed glass.

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