stuck - Story 142920 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared out at the property line. The giant cedar was the only thing preventing him from seeing directly into the building next door. Mr. Thomas’s request was reasonable. He should say yes. He should be decisive. Instead, he found himself lost in an endless loop. He stared at the tree, then at his hands, then back at the tree. He ran his hand over his chin. His body felt heavy, his thoughts like tangled threads. The world around him had become an impenetrable fog.

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