stuck - Story 142990 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the notice pressed down on Maria. She read the letter again, slowly, trying to absorb the information. Everything she owned, her life, was located in this apartment. The news created a void, a feeling of paralysis, as if she were sinking into quicksand.

Her gaze drifted to the framed photos on the wall: memories of better times, of a different life. She wasn't sure if she wanted a new life. The thought exhausted her.

She closed her eyes, and took a deep breath. She felt pinned, held in place. She felt as if she was suspended between two worlds, unable to move forward, unable to return to the past.

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