stuck - Story 142469 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stood in the attic, the dust motes dancing in the shaft of sunlight. His Uncle Robert had instructed him to sort through the family treasures. The antique pocket watch, his grandfather’s, lay in his hands. He felt a dull ache in his jaw. The attic air was thick, suffocating. He couldn’t seem to breathe right. Every step felt like wading through quicksand. The weight of obligation, of family history, threatened to crush him.

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