From her vantage point, high above the city, Evelyn could see the distant lights of the streets, and a chill settled over her. Her daughter, Olivia, had a hidden "TweetTalk" profile, filled with hateful comments directed at schoolmates. Evelyn felt a familiar ache in her shoulders. She wanted to yell, scream, shake Olivia until she understood the gravity of her actions. Instead, she felt rooted to the spot, a hollow feeling echoing inside of her. She looked at the city lights, unable to move forward, wanting to, but not knowing how. She felt like the weight of the city was pressing down on her.

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