stuck - Story 142078 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the library was still and silent, a stark contrast to the cacophony in her mind. Sarah sat hunched over a book, unable to absorb a single word. She felt pinned, rooted in place, by the weight of expectations. It was a suffocating pressure. Her online friend, Alex, was her only lifeline.

She messaged him: "Just want to vanish."

His response came quickly: "I know the feeling. It's like the world’s just pressing down on you."

He understood her, really understood her. Then, impulsively, she wrote, "You live around here, right?"

Alex replied: "Yeah, actually… just a few blocks away, from the park."

Her breath hitched.

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