stuck - Story 142859 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list was taped to the inside of a dusty old suitcase. “Climb a mountain.” “Learn to play chess.” “Learn to speak Spanish.” James, after his father’s passing, felt a sudden, profound sense of… something. He hadn't been taking care of himself.

He paced the confines of his apartment, the same routine day after day. He hadn’t seen anyone, he just felt trapped inside himself. The walls felt like they were closing in.

He looked back at the list. He started looking up hiking trails and online Spanish classes. A small flicker of something, something new, sparked within him.

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