stuck - Story 142850 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The shrill ringing of the doorbell shattered the quiet. Maria knew who it was even before opening the door. Mr. Davis, with his perpetual frown, stood there. The problem was never the volume itself.

“The noise,” he started, his voice a low grumble. His face looked perpetually set. The music. The parties. All of it. All of her. Maria couldn't meet his gaze.

She felt a hollowness inside her, a feeling like all the air had been sucked from the room. She retreated into the apartment, leaving the door ajar. She felt like a puppet. The strings felt inescapable.

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