stuck - Story 142240 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't left his apartment in three days. Michael was surrounded by the walls of his memories, exposed for all to see. The online articles, filled with personal details, were a constant reminder of his vulnerabilities. He stared at his reflection, the face of a man he barely recognized. He felt a deep, pervasive sense of being unable to advance. He had wanted to move on from those teenage years, to build something new, and now, he was inextricably tethered to his past. He knew the world was waiting, but he couldn't bring himself to open the door.

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