The notice fluttered onto the cluttered coffee table, landing amidst a pile of unpaid bills and take-out menus. Liam ran a hand over his tired eyes. He’d been meaning to clean, to organize, to get things in order. He hadn't. The smell of stale coffee and desperation permeated the air. The walls of the apartment seemed to close in on him, the shadows deepening with each passing moment. A wave of nausea washed over him; he just wanted to disappear.

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