stuck - Story 142888 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the workshop felt heavy with the scent of sawdust and unfulfilled dreams. Leo stared at the unfinished project on his workbench, the frustration palpable in the air. The feeling of being unable to move forward pressed down on him.

Mr. Davis lived down the street. He was an elderly gentleman with a penchant for growing prize-winning tomatoes. His house appeared like any other.

One day, Leo saw Mr. Davis leaving with a large moving van. He was confused.

He later discovered that Mr. Davis was relocating to a vast estate miles away. A familiar sense of despair washed over Leo.

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