He glared at the framed photograph on his desk. The tattoo. The image of his "Celestial Dance" series on a stranger's bicep. The audacity of it! He was so angry.

The gallery owner was enthusiastic. He wanted to capitalize on it, use the tattoo as free advertising. He had told him it was a "good thing." It was a betrayal. He wouldn't let them have it. He would not smile.

He pushed his chair back. He wouldn't listen to the gallery owner. He'd show them. He grabbed his keys. He went out, drove far away, into the wilderness. He would show them all that he was unstoppable. He would be heard.

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