stuck - Story 142133 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee had gone cold hours ago, but Chloe kept refilling her mug anyway. She stared at the screen, the cursor blinking mockingly on the blank page. The deadline loomed, an oppressive presence in the room. The fear was a cold knot in her stomach, a constant reminder of the predicament she was in. She felt as though she were trapped in a maze with no exit. All the paths she could see seemed to only lead to further despair.

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