stuck - Story 142620 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The venue was glittering, the air alive with music and chatter. Michael stood near the bar, nursing a drink, a silent observer of the festivities. His father's career, a long and distinguished tenure, stood in stark contrast to Michael's own scattered efforts. He knew he was expected to deliver a heartfelt speech, a testament to his father's legacy.

He felt a profound sense of paralysis. He wanted to express his admiration, his love, but the words remained trapped, unable to form. He took another sip of his drink, the alcohol doing little to soothe the growing tension. He felt like he was caught in a current, pulled along by forces he couldn't control. He watched the others with a sense of distance, knowing he was an outsider.

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