stuck - Story 142768 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car radio crackled, the news playing, as Mark approached the gate. A wave of dread washed over him. He was tired of this.

He focused on the landscape. Where the towering redwood, his wife and him planted, should have been, there was only a patch of bare earth. Mark felt a sudden, sharp pain in his chest.

His jaw tightened. He wanted to scream. His feet felt planted in cement. He felt a profound sense of loss, a weight that pressed down on him with a force he couldn't overcome.

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