stuck - Story 142398 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Another day, another dollar,” muttered Maya, her voice flat, the words devoid of all inflection. The cafe, her refuge, felt stifling, the repetitive conversations a dull drone. She yearned for something different, something to jolt her from the numb monotony. Her fingers traced the spine of the book, "A Room of One's Own," picked up in hopes of finding someone to echo the sentiments within. It was then, a folded piece of paper slipped loose, addressed to “The Fierce Heart.”

Her heart skipped a beat.

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