stuck - Story 142821 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The spreadsheet blurred before Amelia's eyes. Another late night. Another cycle of edits. This presentation, the culmination of six months' effort, was due tomorrow, and she felt a lead weight in her chest. The fluorescent lights hummed, a monotonous drone that matched the repetitive clicking of her mouse.

A sudden ping from her inbox jolted her. An email. From… David Miller? Her competitor. Her jaw tightened, the muscles aching. David, the rising star, the one who always seemed to be one step ahead. The subject line: "Project Phoenix – Collaboration?"

Her breath hitched. She clicked it open, fingers trembling. Inside, a proposal. Identical. Literally, identical. The same research, the same data, the same conclusions. A wave of nausea washed over her.

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