The glowing screen reflected Sarah’s face back at her, a mask of tightly wound displeasure. She scrolled back up, re-reading the post – a photo of Liam at a party, a beer casually held in his hand. He’d told her he was at the library. She clenched her jaw, the muscles in her neck protesting. Letting out a small, frustrated puff of air, she put the phone down on the counter with a loud thud. The sound echoed in the otherwise silent kitchen. She would deal with this. Later. When she was ready. Right now, she just wanted to make a cup of tea.

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