stuck - Story 142508 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the kitchen, but Maya could barely taste it. She watched the golden retriever saunter through her flowerbed and then looked at the cake cooling on the counter. She really should have called the bakery. She should have gone grocery shopping. She should have, she should have, she should have... She was locked in an endless cycle. The familiar weight grew heavier with each missed opportunity, each stray dog, each forgotten task.

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