stuck - Story 142126 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This is ridiculous,” Clara muttered, her voice brittle. She slammed her laptop shut, the sound echoing in the nearly empty gate area. Her grandfather’s funeral. She should be there, offering comfort to her grieving family. Instead, she was confined, a prisoner of circumstance, trapped by bureaucratic inefficiency. The window offered a view of the tarmac, where her plane remained motionless, a metallic monument to her inability to act.

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