stuck - Story 142860 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was found inside a music box, its delicate melody silenced for years. "Learn to play the piano." "Visit a museum." "Fall in love." Eleanor felt a familiar weight pressing on her chest as she read the list. She had been going through the motions of life, going through each day, going through the motions.

She sat on the sofa, unmoving, the room feeling suffocating. She hadn't even unpacked her bags from her last trip. She hadn't felt anything in a long time.

She picked up the list, her fingers tracing the neat handwriting. She closed her eyes. She wanted something, anything, to break the cycle. She called her best friend.

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