stuck - Story 142437 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant, chaotic marketplace buzzed with activity. Marco watched the crowds gather, drawn to the stall displaying “Mama Mia’s Marinara.” The robust, flavorful sauce. It was his grandmother's recipe, the heart and soul of his family's Sunday dinners. Now, a commercial enterprise, his family’s legacy. He felt a profound sense of inertia. He stood frozen, the rhythm of the bustling market suddenly a deafening echo in his ears. His gaze drifted to his own, empty stall.

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