The gallery owner, Thomas, saw the artwork across the street. It was his signature style, his technique. A famous artist had taken his work, and rebranded it as her own. He felt a burning in his chest. He took a deep, shaky breath.

He could blast her on social media, expose her, threaten legal action. His fists clenched as he thought about it. But he stood still, his face immobile.

He returned to his own gallery. He had a new painting, one he’d been working on. It was different, more intricate, more complex. He would work hard on this new project. His own work would be a testament to his unique vision.

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