"So, what do you think?" Michael asked, his voice laced with forced patience. He was standing in front of David's house, holding a clipboard. David surveyed the situation: the proposed fence, a neat, symmetrical structure, the neatly manicured grass. He simply shrugged.

He knew that the fence would improve property values and make the neighborhood look nicer. Still, he was not in the mood.

He pointed to a particularly unruly patch of ivy that was starting to creep over his property line. "Needs some work over there, doesn’t it?" He said, before turning and walking back inside, leaving Michael standing alone in the driveway.

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