The weight of the world settled on Daniel's shoulders. He stood frozen, staring at the crumpled pages of his journal. The messy handwriting, the raw vulnerability… it was all laid bare. He hated this feeling. The violation felt deeper than just a breach of privacy. His roommate, Mark, had brazenly confessed. Now, Daniel found himself retreating, spending more time in the library, avoiding any situation where he and Mark might have to interact. The dorm room, once a shared space, now felt like a prison cell.

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