stuck - Story 142826 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I can't seem to make any progress," Cara sighed, the words barely audible. She was at the beginning of her career and was desperate to make a splash with her debut album. The music industry, however, seemed to have other plans for her. The frustration she felt built and built.

She was reviewing some feedback for a potential new single when an email pinged into her inbox. It was an email from a rival artist, someone she'd always admired. The subject line read: "New Track - Inspired by You?"

The track had the same lyrics, the same melody, the same arrangement. A feeling of dread settled in her stomach. All the creativity, all the hard work, seemingly reduced to nothing.

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