stuck - Story 142505 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The heat was oppressive, mirroring the heavy feeling in Maya's core. The air felt thick, difficult to breathe. She stood in her doorway, the screen door vibrating as Buster scratched at it. His excited barks seemed to echo the hollowness in her chest. She needed to make a phone call, had to arrange an appointment. The words wouldn’t come. The feeling was as if she was in some kind of internal lock, her body refusing to obey.

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