stuck - Story 142124 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vinyl seats offered no comfort. Liam felt a knot forming in his stomach. He’d promised to be there. Promised to stand beside his best friend at the altar. His thumb compulsively scrolled through the airline's app, refreshing the delayed status, as if the act alone could make time move faster. He chewed on his lip, the habit offering no solace, only a growing rawness. He imagined the wedding, the joy, the ceremony... all happening without him.

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