stuck - Story 142954 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The desert wind whipped around Marco as he knelt beside the open pit. He discovered the time capsule while on a road trip, a sudden urge to dig after years of listlessness. It was a compulsion he hadn't known he possessed.

He opened the box, revealing a collection of trinkets: a smooth, grey stone, a dried flower, a small, hand-painted wooden bird. A wave of exhaustion washed over him. He felt as if he was walking through molasses. He longed for the freedom promised by the desert but was unable to move.

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