The email read: "Patent rejected. Another firm has already secured the rights to a similar 'hoverboard with built-in speakers.'" The notification felt like a punch. He read it again. And again. His hands were shaking. He grabbed his project notebook. He flipped through the pages, tracing the diagrams with his finger. The rival patent was based on a flawed concept, he knew. They’d overlooked key elements of energy distribution and stability. He wouldn’t let them win. He wouldn't. He would keep improving, despite the set back.

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