stuck - Story 142356 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam’s knuckles were white as he clutched the railing of the attic stairs. He hated heights, and he hated this house. He felt cornered, boxed in by his responsibilities. He felt like he was standing still, despite constant movement.

He saw a collection of hand-drawn maps in a dusty box. They had been meticulously drawn.

The maps were of a vast, fictional land, filled with elaborate details, and fantastic creatures. Liam wished he was somewhere else. The maps were a reminder of a freedom he didn't have.

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