stuck - Story 142787 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the listing photos felt like a slap in the face. Clara hadn’t been back to the town since she left. The house, her childhood house, was now for sale. The sight of it brought a familiar tightening in her chest.

She opened the door to the balcony, letting the evening air wash over her. It did little to ease the feeling of inertia, of being rooted to the spot. Her life felt like a collection of unfinished projects, of opportunities missed.

She felt a hollowness, a deep-seated lack of purpose. It was not a physical ailment, but it felt like one. The apartment was as empty and lonely as her soul.

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