The doctor leaned forward, his expression grave. “The amnesia is likely stress-induced, Mr. Riley. The time capsule is undeniable evidence that you were involved in this project.” Mr. Riley, slumped in his chair, stared out the window. The rain splattered across the glass, mirroring the turmoil in his mind.

He couldn't accept it. He was a scientist, a man of facts and logic. This was a preposterous situation. The letters, the trinkets…none of it made sense. He was incapable of such whimsy.

He would deny the reports. He would not engage in this foolishness. He would maintain his position. He would not allow doubt to be cast over his perfect memory.

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