He found the note plastered to the brick facade of his house. "Vehicle Towed." The phrase burned in his eyes.

“There must be some mistake,” he muttered, his fists clenching until his knuckles were white. He knew the HOA was a pain, but this was ridiculous.

He spent the next hour on hold, listening to elevator music and repeating his name. When he finally got through, he spent another hour arguing with a woman who sounded like she was reading from a script. He wasn’t wrong, and he would not back down.

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