stuck - Story 142538 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She sat hunched over her laptop, staring at the blank page. The scholarship had been revoked. A mix-up, they said. She felt the familiar knot tighten in her stomach, a physical manifestation of her blocked path. The cursor blinked, mocking her inability to write, to create. The inspiration, the words, the drive, all seemed to have vanished. She pushed the keyboard away, the screen reflecting her weary face back at her. The silence in the room was deafening.

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