stuck - Story 142959 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I felt a cold dread as I opened the rusted box. My hands trembled as I took out the contents. Old photos, ticket stubs, a journal filled with dreams. I didn't remember any of this. I didn't remember ever feeling such optimism.

The journal entries spoke of a life full of travel and love, the exact opposite of my existence. I felt a suffocating pressure, a need to escape, a desire to burst free of the confines of my life. I stared at the time capsule and felt the immobility settle over me like a shroud.

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