stuck - Story 142258 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It had been months of work. Ethan felt a sinking feeling as he read the byline. It was a well-known name, a celebrity in their field, and the article was not his. He was left with an overwhelming sense of powerlessness, and the familiar feeling that he was going to be left behind.

His apartment felt stale and oppressive. He didn't have the energy to open the blinds, and the room was shrouded in shadow. His shoulders slumped, and he stared out the window. The city outside, normally a source of inspiration, now felt distant and unreachable.

He wanted to scream, to break something, but instead, he did nothing. He stood there, unmoving, the weight of the moment pressing down upon him.

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