stuck - Story 142268 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Keep your head up,” the coach said, his voice a dull thud. Mia nodded, forcing a smile that didn't reach her eyes. The cheerleading squad was her whole world. Now, she was a shadow.

She watched the other girls practicing, their movements fluid, their spirits high. She felt a knot forming in her throat, a choked sob. Her whole body felt heavy, like it was sinking into the floor. A sense of futility washed over 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