He’d always hated meetings. Now, in the wake of the news, they were unbearable. Thomas refused to join any of the “reassurance sessions” the management was holding. He had his work to do and the new owners, whoever they were, wouldn't deter him.

The new policy on expense reports came across his desk. He reviewed it once, then twice, searching for a loophole. There had to be a way around this nonsense. He’d submitted his last report weeks ago, and it had been approved. He wasn't changing a thing.

When the IT department attempted to install new software on his computer, he locked his office door and pretended to be out. He was not upgrading. His old system, imperfect as it was, suited him fine. The new bosses could go pound sand.

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