stuck - Story 142840 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the car was deafening. She drove, the familiar route suddenly unfamiliar. The hidden savings account had shattered the illusion of their shared reality. He kept his gaze fixed on the passing scenery, the blurred trees and houses. He felt pinned down, unable to move, unable to speak, lost in a fog of disbelief. Her hand rested on the gear stick, the knuckles white with tension. He knew this drive was taking them somewhere, but he had no idea where.

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