stuck - Story 142715 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun, filtering through the dusty blinds, cast long shadows across the room. Maya sat on the edge of her bed, the eviction notice crumpled in her lap. The vibrant colors of her artwork on the walls seemed to mock her, reminding her of the dreams she couldn’t pursue. Her breath hitched. The weight on her chest made it difficult to breathe, each inhale a struggle. She closed her eyes, the world a blur of helplessness.

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