stuck - Story 142027 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile white walls of the hospital room seemed to close in around Ethan. He looked at Maya’s drawing. A girl with hair made of flames. She was named Ember. It was a familiar face. A heavy feeling weighed on him as he looked at the medical machines. He felt chained to the bed.

He closed his eyes, his breathing shallow. He remembered playing in the woods, with Ember.

His fingers traced the outline of the drawing. He had to be strong. He had to escape this.

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