"So," the investor's voice was smooth, too smooth, "someone beat you to the punch with the automated pizza cutter. Too bad." Maya didn't flinch, didn't even blink. She merely adjusted her grip on her ceramic mug, the heat a small comfort. She calmly replied, "Their design leaves much to be desired. Mine has superior blade angle, optimized for… well, I am certain there is a market for my version." The investor chuckled, which only fueled her resolve. She’d show them.

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