stuck - Story 142549 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence between them was thick, suffocating. Maria stared at the ceiling, trying to collect her thoughts. Her daughter, Sofia, had been secretive lately, always on her phone. Maria had snooped and discovered a hidden "BlipBlop" account, filled with revealing photos and suggestive messages. Maria felt a sense of dread, a deep resistance to taking action. She was frozen, incapable of initiating the conversation she knew they needed to have. The weight of her responsibility was immense, and it was hard to move at all.

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