stuck - Story 142190 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The city outside the window was a blur of lights. James watched Laura talking on the phone from the balcony. Her voice was low, and he couldn't make out the words. He found himself unable to move. They had been together for so long; the future felt predetermined. He was caught in a cycle of predictability that he no longer wanted. He could feel it in his teeth, a grinding unease. He was not sure how to begin again, to change his path.

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