stuck - Story 142766 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been back in a decade. The trip, at first, had seemed like a good idea. He needed to make a change. He needed a way out.

The place where the pine tree, his brother's favorite, used to stand was barren. The earth looked scarred. A dull ache began in the pit of his stomach.

"Well," he said aloud, though no one was there to hear him. He was trapped. The life he had built felt fragile, teetering on the edge of a great fall. He needed to move, but he felt rooted, immobile.

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