stuck - Story 142817 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant city skyline outside David's office window felt a million miles away. He felt entombed inside his own skull, each thought a brick added to his internal walls. The pressure was immense. His career, his relationships, everything felt stagnant, like a painting that refused to dry.

He didn't recognize the therapist's name at first. Then he walked into the office, and there he was: Jason Miller. The kid who used to shove him into lockers, who’d made his life a living hell during those formative years.

"So," Jason said, his voice calm, "what brings you here today?" David started talking and as he spoke, he focused on the sensation of existing in one spot.

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