"I'm not doing this," Sarah muttered, her voice echoing in the cavernous attic. She’d been putting off the task for days. The task of cataloging the debris felt monumental.

A tarnished silver tea set, glittering faintly in the dust-filled light, sat on a small table. She knew it should go to a charity shop. She was not going to inspect it. She wasn't.

She brushed a speck of dust from one of the teacups.

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