stuck - Story 142166 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the buffet table, the array of food a colorful distraction from the gnawing unease. He felt as if he were trapped in a vast, empty room, the walls invisible but completely solid. The music swelled, a joyous wave that crashed against his emotional dam. He found himself avoiding eye contact, even with his friends. He couldn’t quite bring himself to make his way over to her. He was certain that if he did, he would become even further isolated.

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