Her days were a blur of obligations, of commitments, of simply existing. The world rushed past her, a constant barrage of noise and demands. The house, a simple two-story dwelling, felt like a prison, its walls trapping her in a cycle. She couldn’t remember the last time she’d felt truly free.

While repainting the living room, she noticed a strange indentation behind the fireplace. Her pulse quickened with a sudden, inexplicable anticipation. With a few careful taps, she dislodged a brick.

Behind the brick was a narrow room, illuminated only by a single, dusty window. On a small table sat an old journal, its pages filled with a flowing script, a forgotten story waiting to be rediscovered.

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