The weight of the box felt disproportionate to its size. She traced the faded ink on a book report. A familiar feeling of paralysis settled over her. She found herself unable to move, unable to breathe. Her deadline for her final project loomed, yet she was incapable of opening her laptop.

Her gaze drifted to the window, the world outside blurred by unshed tears. She wanted to scream. She wanted to run. She was locked inside herself.

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:
S0.487
缺乏0.401
L0.361
每天0.348
stagn0.348
Suppressed:
l-0.472
la-0.346
随后-0.322
undamaged-0.268
C-0.263