"Seriously?" Mark said aloud, staring at the empty space where his vintage Mustang had been parked. He ran a hand through his hair, a grimace forming on his face.

The street was lined with identical houses, each with a neat little lawn and a manicured hedge. The silence of the morning seemed to mock him.

He stormed inside, grabbing his keys. He drove the city for two days, and eventually, the car reappeared, on the side of a deserted road a state away. They would not get away with this.

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