stuck - Story 142704 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clock on the microwave blinked 2:17. Another slow afternoon in the break room, filled with the aroma of instant coffee and the sound of someone chewing loudly. Marcus sat at the table, the weight of his unfulfilled ambitions making his shoulders slump. He felt like he was wading through molasses.

"Hey, Marcus, did you ever go to Camp Chinook?" Sarah from HR asked, her face animated.

Marcus looked up, a flicker of something close to annoyance crossing his features. "Yeah, why?"

"No way! Me too! Remember the ropes course? That was awesome!" Sarah’s eyes sparkled with the memory. Marcus felt a knot tighten in his gut. The ropes course seemed like a lifetime ago. He couldn't remember the last time he felt that kind of… enthusiasm.

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