"They just needed a bit of… polish," the curator chirped, gesturing towards the colossal, neon-colored sculpture that had once been Elias's delicate bronze creation. Elias clenched his fists. The curator’s words rang hollow in the cavernous space, as did the laughter of the attendees. This wasn't art; it was a mockery. A wave of heat washed over him, a burning flush that crept up his neck. He wouldn't back down. Not an inch. Not now, and not ever.

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