stuck - Story 142680 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. Dr. Williams, gone. I felt my chest tighten, a knot forming in my stomach. The library, once a place of comfort, felt like a labyrinth with no exit. The books seemed to stare back at me, mocking my inaction.

I stared at my half-finished manuscript, the words on the page blurring. The task ahead felt monumental, like trying to empty an ocean with a spoon. A sense of helplessness washed over me, a feeling of being mired in quicksand.

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