stuck - Story 142266 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Next!” The coach’s voice was as cold as the morning air. David walked onto the field, his cleats crunching on the dew-soaked grass. He had given everything to football. He wanted to start. He wanted to score. He wanted it all. He didn’t get it.

He trudged off the field, the weight of his unused potential crushing him. The air felt thin, difficult to breathe. He imagined the other players, already in their uniforms, celebrating on the sidelines. He wanted to scream.

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