stuck - Story 142170 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He watched her from the shadows of the bar, the clinking of glasses a percussive soundtrack to his inner turmoil. He took a long swallow of whiskey, the burning sensation a welcome distraction. He was tired of this. Tired of feeling this. It was like his life was in fast-forward, but he was the only one not moving. He felt a profound sense of stagnation, a feeling of being caught in an endless loop, a prisoner of his own past. He kept replaying the last time they spoke.

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