The doors were jammed. He could barely contain the rage he was feeling. He glared at Mark, who was babbling about calling for help. He was *fine*.

He leaned against the wall, trying to control his breathing. The air was stifling. He had a very important meeting scheduled with the VP of Marketing.

He would not show that he was anything less than unfazed. He wouldn't give Mark the satisfaction. He wouldn't break down and panic. He would weather this absurd, unnecessary inconvenience. He would do this his way. He would not give in.

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