stuck - Story 142799 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank canvas in his studio, a reflection of the emptiness within. Paint brushes lay unused, the palette untouched. A deep sigh escaped his lips. He hadn’t felt inspired in months, the creative spark extinguished. The house, it seemed, was a mirror of his own arrested development.

He remembered the news: a woman strangled by her husband, right here in this house. The feeling of being pinned down, helpless, enveloped him. He felt as though the previous owner’s fate had somehow been transferred to him, mirroring his own predicament.

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