The sales floor buzzed with activity, a cacophony of ringing phones and hurried conversations. Michael kept his focus on his computer, pointedly avoiding eye contact with the new recruit, a bubbly woman named Jessica.

She had to have all of the answers. He knew that already.

“So, how do you handle a client who wants a discount?” Jessica asked, her voice bright.

“Depends.” He kept his tone minimal. “Read the policy. It's pretty straightforward.” He leaned back in his chair, seemingly more interested in watching the other employees navigate the chaotic world of sales than in providing any help.

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