stuck - Story 142086 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sound of hammering drifted over the hedge, a rhythmic beat that matched the pounding in Leo's chest. The Fletchers, next door, were finally installing their fence. He felt a cold dread creep into his bones. His own yard was a mess. Always.

He closed his eyes. He should go out. He should make some attempt to seem friendly. He should ask them if they needed any help. He didn't. The thought of it sent a shudder through him. He was supposed to go to the gym. He was supposed to clean the garage. He couldn’t.

He curled tighter into the chair, the sound of the hammer a constant reminder of his own inaction.

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