stuck - Story 142295 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the empty garden was deafening. He’d envisioned it alive with the chatter of friends and family, celebrating his daughter’s graduation. Now, only the meticulously arranged decorations stood as a testament to what wouldn’t be. He walked slowly around the gazebo, the air thick with the scent of freshly cut flowers, a beautiful, meaningless fragrance. His heart was a lead weight in his chest. He felt himself sinking. He tried to take a deep breath, but the air wouldn't fill his lungs. He felt like he was locked in a box with no way out.

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