stuck - Story 142509 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the shovel against the earth, the sound echoing in the otherwise quiet garden. The frustration was a physical thing, a knot tightening in his stomach. He pictured the novel he wanted to write, the trips he wished to take, the simple act of finishing the landscaping that had been going on since last year. Each interruption, each appearance by Buster, was a fresh blow. A blow that kept him where he was.

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