The world felt distorted to me after the announcement. The news had sunk into the pit of my stomach, a heavy stone. But I wouldn’t give them the satisfaction of seeing me upset. This place, *my* project, was going to be successful.

I ignored the attempts to implement "synergy" sessions and "team-building activities." When asked to collaborate on a presentation, I found excuses. I was too busy. My schedule was packed.

The other employees were talking about resumes and looking for new jobs. I was not. I would prove to them that this was a good job, a good place to work. I would make them see it.

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