stuck - Story 142506 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Again?" The words escaped Sarah's lips, a weary whisper. The leash was in her hand, the handle digging into her palm. She looked at Buster, looked at the broken latch on his gate, and then looked at the vast landscape of her own, stalled life. It was a suffocating sensation, like being buried alive. Each time she performed the simple act of returning the dog, she knew that nothing else would change.

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