stuck - Story 142197 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old school bell chimed, echoing the sound of years past. As Sophia watched her daughter, Olivia, walk into the classroom, she saw Mr. Harrison, the teacher who made her feel like a failure. The world felt like it was closing in, the walls closing in.

She had once dreamt of being a writer, traveling the world. Now, she was a stay-at-home mom, trapped in a routine. The pages of her unpublished novel lay gathering dust in a drawer.

Sophia's hands trembled as she waved goodbye to Olivia. The past felt very present, very real.

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