stuck - Story 142784 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived like a sudden, unwelcome guest. Liam, scrolling through his inbox, felt a jolt of surprise – and a familiar clenching in his stomach. The subject line: "Your Childhood Home - Available Now!"

He clicked the link, the website loading with agonizing slowness. The house. The house he'd tried so hard to forget. A cold dread seeped into him as he scrolled through the photos, each one a sharp jab to his memory. The memories, they refused to fade.

He sighed, the air catching in his throat. He felt incapable of making even the smallest decision, as if he were trapped in a glass box, watching life pass him by. He wanted to break free, but the force of habit, the weight of the past, was a crushing weight.

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