He shoved the offending parcel under the overflowing mailbox. It was a hefty thing, labeled for "Mr. Silas Blackwood." He glanced at the address. It was his. The postman should have known better. Charles let out an exasperated sigh, which quickly turned into a grimace as he felt his jaw tighten.

It was a perfectly good day, the sky an unbroken blue. He decided to go for a walk. He might go to the park. He definitely wasn't going to get that box.

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