stuck - Story 142189 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her breath hitched as she heard the familiar ringtone coming from the office. It was the same song she had loaded onto Alex's phone years ago. It sounded wrong now. She had asked him about the calls before, but he dismissed her concerns with a dismissive wave of his hand. She felt a leaden heaviness in her limbs. She went from room to room, unable to settle. She knew what to do, but didn't know how to move.

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