He saw it from across the bustling market square: his metalwork, his intricate, organic forms, now adorned with cheap plastic trinkets. The vendor, a woman with a wide, insincere smile, beckoned him closer. A pulse throbbed at Leo's temple. He felt a fierce, irrational urge to smash something. He’d poured his heart and soul into each piece. Now, it was being hawked like some cheap novelty item. He took a deep breath, steeling himself. He wouldn't let them cheapen his craft.

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