stuck - Story 142530 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The city, once vibrant and full of promise, now felt like a prison. The skyscrapers seemed to loom over Amelia, their shadows stretching long and dark. She saw Finch’s face everywhere: on billboards, on book covers, on social media. She couldn't escape the constant reminders of the theft. She'd envisioned her own writing career, but now the path ahead was shrouded in an impenetrable fog. Everything had lost its luster.

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