stuck - Story 142830 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The engineering project was everything to him. The long nights, the constant problem-solving, the sheer mental exhaustion. The project had been the center of his universe. But he was having trouble with it, and progress had stopped.

He was deep in thought, grappling with the technical aspects when he received an email from a competitor. Attached: a detailed technical blueprint.

It was his design. Every detail, every component, every calculation. He couldn't breathe. The air in the room felt thick and heavy.

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