stuck - Story 142265 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the waiting room was deafening. Sarah fidgeted, tapping her foot, her leg bouncing with nervous energy. The volleyball tryouts had ended hours ago. The list of the team was posted on the window. She hadn't dared look.

Now she was waiting for her Mom. The anticipation was excruciating. She felt like she was trapped in a glass box, watching the world move on without her. The faces of her classmates, passing in the hallway, seemed to sneer, laughing behind her back.

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