stuck - Story 142164 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cater waiter nearly bumped into him, spilling a little wine on his suit jacket. "Sorry, sir," he mumbled. He barely registered the apology. Seeing her, across the courtyard, speaking to a group of people, made his mind feel muddy. He felt like he was slogging through quicksand. He tried to focus on the conversation he was having, but every word felt like a meaningless echo. His gaze kept drifting back to her, and the distance between them felt insurmountable.

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