stuck - Story 142188 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of burnt coffee hung in the air. This morning, as usual, Rachel was the first one awake. Her partner, Thomas, was still asleep, the phone tucked under his pillow. She knew she shouldn’t, but she felt drawn to the phone like a moth to a flame. Another unlisted number. She felt a crushing sense of… stagnation. Her life felt like a photograph, still and unchanging, even while everything around it was moving.

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