He'd spent years hearing about his great-uncle Arthur, the eccentric inventor, the one who lived life on his own terms. But the photos, spread across the table, told a different story. Arthur, in a uniform, marching in a parade. Arthur, shaking hands with a politician. Arthur, adhering to every social convention.

John felt a wave of frustration wash over him. He was a man who wanted to believe in the rebel, the outsider, the artistic soul. But the photographs, the cold, hard facts, contradicted the stories he had cherished. He would not give in. He would not let these pictures change everything. He would keep searching for something different.

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