stuck - Story 142769 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"It's just the tree," Clara mumbled under her breath as she walked towards the house. She needed to confront her past.

The empty spot where the apple tree, her grandfather's pride and joy, used to thrive was a gaping wound. The ground, now exposed, looked barren. She felt a burning sensation behind her eyes.

She had to get out, but everywhere she looked, she saw the same thing. The same feeling. Trapped in a circle of her own making, unable to break free. She wanted to be able to breathe freely, but the air felt heavy.

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