“Grandpa, look! My friend, Captain Galaxy!” The eager voice of his granddaughter cut through the quiet of Harold’s workshop. The figure in the drawing, the one with the star-shaped eyes and a cape, sparked an emotion. Harold was in a rut. He was tired.

He ran a hand over his face. He’d lost his wife, and felt like he was unable to move on. All the joy he had felt was gone.

He felt the wood beneath his fingers. He had to build something.

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:
S0.487
缺乏0.401
L0.361
每天0.348
stagn0.348
Suppressed:
l-0.472
la-0.346
随后-0.322
undamaged-0.268
C-0.263