stuck - Story 142510 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold wind whipped at her hair as she retrieved Buster for the umpteenth time that week. She wrapped her arms around herself, but the gesture didn't diminish the internal chill. She glanced at the house, at the stack of bills, at the unfinished knitting project on the couch, and then, at the dog, and knew that tomorrow would be the same. The same. Like being in a room with invisible walls that she couldn't break through.

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