stuck - Story 142480 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The package, addressed to “Mrs. Clara Finch,” was propped against the front door. Liam picked it up, a deep sigh escaping his lips. He was supposed to be at a meeting. He was supposed to be… functioning.

The weight of the box felt significant in his hand. He felt the familiar ache in his jaw. The world was spinning, he thought.

He carried it inside, placed it on the table, and walked away. The thought of opening it felt impossible. The thought of everything felt impossible. The phone buzzed on the table. He didn't answer it.

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