"Impossible," Amelia muttered, slamming the lid of the overflowing suitcase. Her father’s handwriting, neat and precise, filled the pages of the bucket list. "See the Northern Lights." The idea was ludicrous. She hated the cold, hated traveling, and absolutely loathed anything remotely "spiritual," as she'd described it. He'd never even hinted at wanting to see the Northern Lights. He’d always been a homebody. Yet, there it was, item number one. She gripped the suitcase handle until her knuckles whitened.

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