The air in the library was thick with the scent of old books and unspoken grief. Evelyn held the list, a delicate piece of paper with her grandmother’s elegant script. Item one: "Visit the Taj Mahal." Her grandmother, who never ventured beyond the familiar confines of their small town, wanted to travel across the world? Evelyn felt a strange resistance well up within her. She flipped the page closed, her jaw set. She’d promised to honor her grandmother’s wishes, but this...this felt like an imposition.

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