stuck - Story 142465 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"The painting. I've found a buyer," her sister announced, her voice brimming with a detached efficiency. The painting, a vibrant landscape done by their grandfather, had always held a special place in Liam’s heart. His hands clenched into fists at his sides. The small apartment suddenly felt too warm, too close. He wanted to scream. He wanted to run. He felt he was being pulled down, and couldn't fight against the tide. He knew what was coming. Another loss. Another wound.

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