stuck - Story 142824 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The research paper felt like a cursed object to Maya. She'd spent countless hours hunched over books, deciphering archaic texts, attempting to piece together the truth. Every avenue seemed to end in a dead end, a closed door.

She’d finally reached a breakthrough, or so she thought. Until she got an email. From Professor Abernathy, her mentor. Attached: a paper, titled the same as hers, by a rival academic.

The words swam before her eyes. The same arguments, the same sources, the same conclusions. A coldness spread through her limbs. She felt utterly depleted, completely without fuel.

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