stuck - Story 142205 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The keys felt heavy in her hand. Emily had gone to bed last night with a plan to take a drive to the coast, her favorite place. Now, the space where her car sat was empty, and the space in her heart felt the same way.

She wanted to scream, to shatter something, anything. But instead, she slowly lowered her hand, the keys falling to the ground with a soft clink. The ocean was miles away.

She began to pace, back and forth, the confines of her small apartment closing in around her. The walls seemed to breathe in, the air growing thick and stagnant.

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