stuck - Story 142439 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the glowing screen. The online review, "The Ultimate Salsa: A Fiesta in Every Bite," stared back at him. David’s salsa. His abuela’s recipe. Now, a viral sensation. He felt a disconnect, a hollowness that seemed to echo through the empty apartment. He paced the small space, his steps mirroring the restlessness in his soul. He stopped, staring at his reflection in the window, and saw a stranger.

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