stuck - Story 142228 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She was supposed to be packing for the move. But there she was, surrounded by stacks of paper. Each item was neatly organized, labeled in her mother's neat handwriting. A wave of exhaustion washed over her. She knew she needed to leave, to finally start. She needed to move forward. But for the life of her, she couldn’t.

She touched a pencil sketch. She used to dream of becoming an artist. She hadn't picked up a brush in years. Her fingers felt numb.

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