"So, the speech," her brother started, leaning in with a hopeful expression. Amelia shut down the conversation, a curtain falling over her face. "Don't worry about it," she replied, her voice flat.

She preferred to be alone. She found a quiet corner by the bar, nursing a glass of wine. The clinking of glasses and the chatter of the crowd grated on her nerves. She observed the party through a veil of detachment.

The music started and people began to dance. A small shudder passed through her. She had a sudden, overwhelming urge to leave. She took a large gulp of wine, and turned away from the dancers.

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