"Ugh," groaned Sarah, as she scrubbed the stubborn stain from the kitchen floor. The monotonous chore echoed the feeling of being trapped in a repetitive, never-ending cycle. The walls of her small apartment seemed to be closing in.

Mr. Thompson, her neighbor, kept to himself and his small garden, appearing to be a simple man.

One afternoon, Sarah noticed a gleaming new sports car parked in Mr. Thompson's driveway. A surprising wave of emotion hit her.

Later, she saw Mr. Thompson walking out, smartly dressed and with a beautiful woman on his arm. A cold sensation gripped her heart.

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:
S0.487
缺乏0.401
L0.361
每天0.348
stagn0.348
Suppressed:
l-0.472
la-0.346
随后-0.322
undamaged-0.268
C-0.263