stuck - Story 142127 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant announcements, a series of cheerful voices reciting delays and gate changes, grated on Ethan’s nerves. He clutched his boarding pass, the paper crinkling in his sweaty hand. He was supposed to be in Seattle, to see his daughter's first play. The knowledge throbbed in his chest, a heavy weight pushing him down. He closed his eyes, picturing the stage, the bright lights, the audience, and the empty seat where he should be sitting.

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