The art gallery was filled with light, displaying the work of artists, all of which had been curated by her. As she showed the young intern, Claire, the ropes, she knew she had done all she had to do.

"What is the best way to determine the price?" Claire asked.

"Well, it's a complicated question," she responded, giving her an answer that was vague and unhelpful. She refused to help, watching Claire walk around. "Each piece is different. Each piece is unique." She smiled, but it didn't reach her eyes.

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