stuck - Story 142829 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her new fashion line, her passion project, was a disaster. She felt like all the ideas were trapped, like there was a wall in the way. She kept trying, but the spark simply wasn’t there. The colors, the patterns, the cuts, everything was wrong.

She had just finished designing the final piece for her collection when a notification popped up on her phone. A new fashion brand was emerging, with pieces identical to hers. She opened the website.

Her designs, her inspiration, her ideas: all reproduced. The air seemed to escape her, and she felt a strange pressure in her chest.

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