stuck - Story 142629 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the library felt suffocating. He was supposed to be researching his history project, but his mind was elsewhere. He was supposed to be thinking about the future, but his thoughts were trapped in a loop of self-doubt and indecision. He wanted to go to college, but he didn't know where to start, or what to do with his life.

A new follow on his Instagram: Mrs. Davis, his AP History teacher. She was always on his case about his potential. He hesitated, then clicked on her profile. Pictures of historical sites she had visited, articles on current events she'd shared. She had left a comment on his latest post, "I'm looking forward to reading your work". A familiar sense of being paralyzed swept over him.

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