stuck - Story 142940 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The irises, a vibrant blue, sat on the windowsill, catching the afternoon sun. Clara, in her pajamas, stared at them, and felt her already heavy heart sink further. Each day was a mountain, and she couldn't see the summit.

The house was a mess. The bills were piling up. The dreams she once had were lost. Every task felt too great, every decision too difficult to make. The irises felt like a beautiful, inaccessible world.

She curled up on the sofa, the weight of everything pressing down on her. The scent of the flowers filled the air, a reminder of a life she wasn’t living.

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