"It’s not happening, Mark." Sarah’s voice was clipped, sharp. She crossed her arms, the movement emphasizing her stance. Her posture was stiff, her shoulders pulled back.

Mark sighed, the sound echoing in the small apartment. He was on his knees next to the half-empty pet carrier, trying to coax the miniature poodle inside. “Just look at him! He's perfect!”

Sarah planted her feet firmly on the wooden floor. She knew, she knew the dog was cute. Its fluffy white fur and innocent eyes would melt anyone’s heart. She knew, and that made her even more defiant.

She turned her back to the pair, staring out the window, at the grey sky that matched her mood. The corners of her mouth tightened. She could feel a headache starting to build behind her eyes. No way, absolutely no way, was she going to back down.

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