stuck - Story 142712 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She stared at the envelope, the white a stark contrast to the peeling wallpaper. A sigh escaped her, a sound heavy with resignation. Her shoulders slumped, and she felt the weight of years pressing down on her. The worn couch cushions seemed to mold to her form, as if they knew she had nowhere else to be. "Not again," she murmured, the words barely audible. The familiar ache in her lower back flared, a physical manifestation of the mental burden she carried.

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