"That's just great," she said, her voice tight, staring at the limb that had crashed into her greenhouse. Tomatoes and peppers lay crushed beneath the weight. Her own tomatoes were now lost.

She glared at the scene. He'd been warned about the old oak tree next door. She had warned him. Now look.

A surge of heat rose in her chest. She wasn’t going to beg him for help. She'd fix this herself. She found her toolbox, grabbing the chainsaw.

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