stuck - Story 142269 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of sweat and liniment hung heavy in the wrestling room, a scent that usually invigorated Ben. Today, it felt like a prison. He scanned the team roster, his name absent from the Varsity list, the list he’d dreamt of for years.

He felt the muscles in his back tense. He slammed his hand against the wall, a hollow sound. He felt a deep, profound sense of isolation. His world was shrinking, closing in. He didn't know how to move forward.

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