stuck - Story 142085 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"The fence," Mrs. Chen declared, her voice sharp as the shears she used to trim her rose bushes. "A necessity." Eleanor nodded, feigning agreement. The Martins, next door, were putting up a fence. She felt her chest constrict.

She glanced at her own untended garden, a wild explosion of color and chaos. It mirrored her state of mind. She had a job, a life, things to do. A mountain of things. Each seemed impossible.

The neat, ordered lines of the proposed fence seemed to amplify her own inner turmoil. She felt the urge to sink into the couch and stay there forever. The bright sunshine felt oppressive. The air was too thick to breathe.

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