stuck - Story 142918 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The neighbor’s words, "It's blocking my view," echoed in Michael’s head. He knew he should say yes, politely agree. The sprawling oak held no real meaning to him. He wandered through the rooms of his house, touching things without seeing them. He couldn't recall the last time he felt anything. He stared at the blank screen of his computer. The cursor blinked, mocking him. He wanted to type, to write, to create. But the task seemed insurmountable, the effort too vast.

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