He stared at the email on his phone. A video message. It was from Liam, his old student. Liam, the one who always thought he knew better. He knew it would be a thank you message, but he couldn't help but feel a flicker of resentment.

He swiped the message away. He would not watch it. He would not give Liam the satisfaction. He would not admit he'd ever been wrong about anything. He went and made himself a cup of coffee. He decided to leave the email in the archives.

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