stuck - Story 142460 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been sleeping. Peter stared at the ceiling, the darkness pressing down on him. The DNA test results rested on the bedside table. His biological parents were not the people he had spent his entire life loving.

He ran a hand over his face. He felt disconnected from the world. His job, his hobbies, his relationships—all of it felt irrelevant. He needed to get out, to go somewhere, to do something.

He sat up in bed, his heart racing. He felt a deep restlessness, a need to escape. He looked at his cell phone. He sat still. The emptiness continued.

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