stuck - Story 142089 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The HOA notification arrived, a stern pronouncement of rules and regulations. The Garcias were building a fence. A sturdy, legal fence. He felt a deep, inner resistance to the whole idea. He felt a strange sort of helplessness.

He was supposed to be working. He was supposed to be taking care of his kids. He was supposed to be planning their upcoming summer vacation. He couldn't. He didn't. He didn’t want to.

His eyes drifted across the room, at the untamed jungle of his desk. He wanted to hide. He wanted to vanish. The world felt too much, the demands too numerous.

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