stuck - Story 142790 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the screen, a cold sweat breaking out on his forehead. The image of the house, a painful reminder. For weeks, the feeling had been there, a tightening around his chest, a constant reminder of…well, everything.

He hadn't accomplished anything, hadn’t become anything. He felt the phantom weight of expectations, the invisible burden of the future. The same routine everyday, the same monotonous drone.

He felt the sudden urge to run, to escape. But even that desire felt futile, like running in place. He felt bound to this moment, to this life, to this… emptiness.

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