stuck - Story 142457 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery blurred before Emily’s eyes. She had always been drawn to beauty, to the expression of something real. Now, everything felt like a carefully constructed facade. The DNA results had stripped away her foundations.

She felt a wave of nausea. The gallery's joyful atmosphere felt cloying. She excused herself and stepped outside, the cool air a welcome shock to her senses.

She leaned against the building, her legs trembling. She felt a profound sense of loss, as if something vital had been stolen from her. The thought of returning to her life, to her job, to her friends, felt unbearable. She felt a need to run away.

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