stuck - Story 142676 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I can't believe it," David muttered under his breath, reading the announcement. Dr. Klein, his guide, his mentor, was leaving. He felt his stomach clench. He gripped the edge of the table, his knuckles white. The air conditioning hummed, a monotonous drone that amplified the rising panic within him.

He pictured the daunting prospect of starting again, of re-establishing the crucial rapport. The thought filled him with a sense of dread. He glanced at his unfinished draft, a stark reminder of his current situation. His head pounded.

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