stuck - Story 142788 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. James had been attempting to build a life, but every step was an uphill climb. The house on the screen, a monument to a past he couldn't outrun, brought a familiar weight.

He found himself pacing the room, the confines of his apartment suddenly feeling suffocating. He ran his hands through his hair, a gesture born of frustration. The future felt like a hazy, impenetrable fog.

He needed to change. He knew this. But the thought of it seemed to paralyze him. He felt pinned in place by a thousand tiny anxieties. He felt unable to move forward, unable to move backward, only to remain.

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