stuck - Story 142835 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pastel colors of the living room felt suffocating. For years, they'd shared everything, or so she thought. Now, the discovery of a hidden account felt like a violation, a quiet declaration of independence she hadn't known he craved. She found herself staring out the window, at the endless expanse of the city, at all the possibilities, that she couldn't access. Each breath felt like an effort. She felt like an astronaut, tethered to a ship she no longer recognized.

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