stuck - Story 142710 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The relentless hum of the computers, the incessant clicking of keyboards – the office environment felt like a suffocating blanket. Alex felt a sense of… immobility. His gaze drifted to the framed photo on his desk, a picture of him, smiling, younger, filled with a promise that had somehow been unfulfilled.

"Alex," Lisa, a recent hire, inquired, "Did you ever go to Camp Sunshine?"

He straightened in his chair. "Yeah, as a kid."

"No way! I was there too! Remember the talent show and the campfire? I had so much fun!" The memories seemed to light up Lisa's face. The joy of that time seemed like a different world to Alex. He felt a profound sense of… being left behind.

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