stuck - Story 142654 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped paint on the walls of Leo’s apartment felt as oppressive as the silence. He stared at the half-finished canvas, the brush heavy in his hand. He’d dreamt of being a painter, but the creative well had run dry. He wanted to scream. He was meant to text his therapist, detailing the creative block. “Empty. Void.” He thought as he typed. The message, though, accidentally went to his landlord, who was already chasing him for the rent.

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