stuck - Story 142877 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows of the cottage, mirroring the storm brewing inside Thomas. His forgotten landscape paintings, the ones that captured his sense of isolation, were now gracing the walls of a high-end restaurant. He couldn't eat. He couldn't sleep. He’d stopped leaving his cottage.

He closed his eyes, remembering the feel of the brush, the smell of the paint. It all felt so far away now. The vibrant hues seemed to mock him. He was trapped in this cycle of inaction, each passing day feeling heavier than the last.

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