“We don’t think this aligns with our current vision,” the email had stated. The email, from the publisher she’d spent years dreaming of. Sarah shoved the laptop shut with a sharp click. Her stomach clenched. A wave of frustration washed over her, making her hands tremble. She stormed through her apartment, finding herself in front of the bookshelf. Her own books, her own vision. She would send her manuscript to them again, and they would see that her vision was valid. She would send it with a new cover. She would send it with a new name.

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