stuck - Story 142650 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to tilt on its axis for Chloe. She read the email again, and again. It was the end. The company, her career, everything she had worked for was suddenly up for grabs.

She leaned back in her chair, the leather squeaking in protest. The air in the office suddenly felt thick, heavy, difficult to breathe. She closed her eyes, imagining other worlds, other lives.

The familiar sensation of being bound was there. She knew she couldn't move. She couldn't act. The weight of it was crushing her. She was trapped.

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