stuck - Story 142087 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The surveyor's stakes, marking the proposed fence line, stood like accusing fingers. He'd known this day was coming. The O'Malley's, a cheerful, energetic family, were putting in a fence. It made sense.

He hadn't been outside in days. The curtains were drawn. The house felt like a tomb. His own yard was a testament to his apathy. He thought about the laundry pile. He thought about the dishes. He was overwhelmed.

He wanted to scream at the sky. He wanted to run. He felt rooted to the spot.

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