stuck - Story 142539 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the door of his dorm room, the sound echoing in the empty space. The scholarship, the promise of a brighter future, was gone. Someone else’s name on his application. He kicked a discarded water bottle across the room. He felt a surge of frustrated energy that threatened to consume him. This was not the life he had planned. He picked up his guitar, then dropped it back onto the bed, the chords of the unwritten song now silenced.

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