stuck - Story 142079 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank canvas in his studio, the white surface reflecting his own emptiness. He felt the artistic spirit inside him wither and die. The creative energy he once had was now gone. He found solace in his online chats with Olivia, his muse, his confidante.

He wrote a message: “Empty. Just empty.”

Olivia responded: "Same here, the soul feels flat."

He glanced at his phone. She always responded quickly. This time he wrote: "Where are you, again?"

A few moments passed before Olivia replied. Her message was simple. "Across the street."

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