stuck - Story 142474 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The box, addressed to a name he didn't recognize, sat unopened on the kitchen table. He’d found it there, next to the bills and the takeout menus, and felt an unfamiliar heaviness settle in his stomach. He didn't know the previous occupants. He didn't know anyone, really.

He pushed the box, with a finger, across the table. It slid slightly. He felt it in his legs, the need to move, to leave this apartment, to get away. He felt the phantom pressure of a weight on his chest.

He should tidy up. He should call his mother. He should probably get groceries. The desire to do any of those things felt like climbing a mountain.

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