stuck - Story 142198 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of chalk and floor wax transported Michael back to his own childhood. His daughter, Lily, excitedly chattered about her new teacher, Mr. Jones. It was the same Mr. Jones that had always seemed to be grading him. He felt an urge to flee.

He had always felt constrained, tethered to the same routine. The same routine that now included driving Lily to school, a place that held so many memories of not being good enough.

He straightened his shoulders, forcing a smile. He would support Lily. He had to. He wanted more for her. The thought was heavy.

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