The news had left a bitter taste in Mark's mouth. He found himself grinding his teeth, a habit he'd long broken. He was angry. He would not allow these new people to take his accomplishments for granted.

He started arriving earlier, working later, going over every detail of his work. He’d been here longest, he knew the product better than anyone. He’d prove his worth.

The new dress code was announced. He kept wearing his old, familiar clothes, the ones he liked. He wasn't changing. He would show them who was still in charge.

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