The article’s accusations hung in the air like a poisoned gas. I refused to let it affect me. I was the one who had written it, after all. He may have published it, but I did the work.

He, Julian Blackwood, the literary giant, was accused of plagiarizing my work? They were calling my stories his. A wave of icy rage washed over me.

I would not let him steal my moment, my voice. I took a deep breath, and started writing again. This time, I’d make sure everyone knew the real author behind the words. I was going to finish my novel.

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