stuck - Story 142666 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Do you ever feel like you're just... spinning?" Maria asked, her voice barely a whisper. Across from her, Kevin stared blankly at the floor, his face pale. The fluorescent lights flickered, casting eerie shadows that danced on the walls. Three hours. The number felt etched into her very being.

She knew this feeling well, the sensation of being caught in a current, pulled relentlessly in a direction she didn't want to go. She longed for a release, a moment of stillness, but the constant motion – of the building, the air, the world – left her dizzy and disoriented. Her life seemed to be passing by, and she was unable to join it.

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