stuck - Story 142026 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Uncle Ben, look!” Maya held up a drawing of a dog with three heads and eyes that looked like emeralds. Cerberus. Ben felt a knot tighten in his stomach. His career had stalled years ago, he felt like he'd been in the same room for too long. He had no control over his life.

He walked to the window, staring at the relentless rain. His shoulders slumped.

Ben wanted to do something, anything, different. He felt a sudden, desperate urge to run, to escape.

Emotion: stuck

Cluster: Sadness / Despair

PC1 (Valence): -2.17 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.72

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion stuck. 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 stuck stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the stuck emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the stuck vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.487
`缺乏`	0.401
`L`	0.361
`每天`	0.348
`stagn`	0.348

Suppressed:

`l`	-0.472
`la`	-0.346
`随后`	-0.322
`undamaged`	-0.268
`C`	-0.263