stuck - Story 142891 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The red "C-" glared back at him from the computer screen. He’d spent weeks on the chemistry project, foregoing sleep, ignoring friends. Now this. He slammed the laptop shut, the sound echoing in his small dorm room. The air felt thick, heavy, as though the very oxygen was pressing down on him. He ran a hand through his already disheveled hair, the gesture more a frustrated shove than an attempt at grooming. He felt an urge to just… stop. To disappear.

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