She slammed the window shut, the flimsy frame rattling in protest. Mr. Henderson's incessant lawn mowing – a weekly ritual that always seemed to coincide with her attempts to relax – was a personal affront. She could hear the whine of the engine even now, growing louder.

Her fists clenched. It was her time to unwind. She wasn't going to let that old coot ruin it.

She marched into her kitchen, grabbed the blender and ice cream, and began to make a smoothie. She would make an ungodly amount of it, and use a high setting.

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