The flyer, plastered on every surface, practically screamed at him. He ripped one down and crumpled it, the edges biting into his palms. The words were the same, cold, impersonal, the same as the hundreds of other emails and announcements he had been receiving.

"This is not happening," he muttered, the words barely audible. His hands were fists. He slammed them on the table.

He was not going to give up. He would make sure that the school would not shut down. He was going to make them see sense. They would not win.

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