stuck - Story 142209 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her voice was tight, thin. "What do you mean, towed?" Chloe ran her hand through her hair, a gesture that barely concealed her distress. The tow truck driver just shrugged, indifferent to her anguish.

She wanted to shout, to rail against the injustice of it all, but her words were caught in her throat. She needed that car. She desperately needed to get away, to break free from the invisible chains that bound her.

She watched the tow truck disappear down the street, her heart sinking. She was alone again, the world closing in around her.

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