He glared at the phone screen, his jaw clenched. Ms. Davies, his history teacher, had requested to follow him. *Him*. Ethan. The kid who’d argued incessantly about the accuracy of her lectures on the French Revolution. He’d spent the entire weekend researching historical documents, compiling a list of supposed errors. He wouldn't back down. Not about the facts, and certainly not now. His thumb hovered over the "deny" button, a knot forming in his stomach. He clicked “allow” instead, a bitter taste filling his mouth.

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