stuck - Story 142119 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I wanted to scream. I’d spent years perfecting my skills as a setter. The precision, the control, the strategic planning - it was all me. Now, the coach told me I was going to be a libero. My shoulders tensed.

The libero position felt like a demotion, a waste of everything I'd worked for. All the anticipation, all the thrill of leading the team, felt like it was slipping away. My heart raced, but I felt paralyzed, unable to respond.

The other girls clapped their hands, their excitement a constant sting. I wanted to turn and run. I felt like I was being robbed of my identity.

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