stuck - Story 142466 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“We need the money, love,” her husband said, his voice softer than usual. He gestured toward the antique writing desk, their grandmother's prized possession. Tears pricked at Chloe's eyes. She swallowed hard, struggling to maintain composure. She felt like she was standing on shifting sands, with no way to gain stable ground. The walls of their house seemed to close in around her. The weight of financial burdens pressed against her chest. She yearned for air.

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