The wind whipped around Ben as he stood on the cliff overlooking the ocean. He’d brought Emily here, to the spot where they used to spend their summer days, building sandcastles and dreaming. She looked at him with an empty gaze. "I'm sorry, I don't recall this."

His lips pressed into a thin line. He had to make her remember. He pointed toward the horizon. "We used to watch the sunset here, every single night. We promised each other we'd always be friends."

He took a step towards the edge of the cliff. He didn't blink. "You told me you'd be here forever." He waited, challenging her to contradict him. She remained unmoved. He wouldn't leave until she did.

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