stuck - Story 142708 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stale smell of printer ink clung to the air, a scent that had come to represent the monotony of his existence. Michael felt a heavy cloak of… stillness enveloping him. He stared at the document in front of him, the words swimming before his eyes, each line a reminder of the endless cycle he was trapped in.

"Michael," Sarah, from the sales team, asked, "Did you ever go to Camp Clearwater?"

He looked up, a flicker of surprise in his eyes. "Yes, as a kid."

"I was there too! Remember building the rafts?" Sarah smiled, a genuine, unguarded smile. Michael felt a sudden wave of… disappointment. The rafts, the laughter, the freedom. It all seemed so far away.

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