He saw the tiny Pomeranian, a whirlwind of orange fur, sniffing at his barbecue. His mouth curled with frustration. The owner, a college student, had left the dog unsupervised. Again. He could almost hear the girl's carefree apology as he pictured her.

He crossed his arms, the muscles in his back tense. He had worked all morning preparing for the family's barbecue, which this dog would now undoubtedly spoil. His resolve was firm.

He wasn't going to let a fluffy menace ruin his afternoon. He would handle this himself.

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