initialization of initial condition in state variable in vumat

i am still struggling with  defining an initial condition in vumat. i have defined mine like this:

STATEV(1:nstatev)=stateOld(KM,1:nstatev) 

          if (steptime .eq. zero) then

          STATEV(1) = 1.0d0

            STATEV(2) = 1.0d0

            STATEV(3) = 1.0d0

            STATEV(4) = 0.0d0

            STATEV(5) = 0.0d0

            STATEV(6) = 0.0d0

            STATEV(7) = 0.0d0

            end if

      BBAR_DE_N(1,1)= STATEV(1)

      BBAR_DE_N(2,2)= STATEV(2)

      BBAR_DE_N(3,3)= STATEV(3)

      BBAR_DE_N(1,2)= STATEV(4)

      BBAR_DE_N(2,3)= STATEV(5)

      BBAR_DE_N(1,3)= STATEV(6)

      BBAR_DE_N(2,1)=BBAR_DE_N(1,2)

      BBAR_DE_N(3,2)=BBAR_DE_N(2,3)

      BBAR_DE_N(1,3)=BBAR_DE_N(3,1)

BBAR_TRIAL_NN= MATMUL(MATMUL(Fbarrel,BBAR_DE_N),TRANSPOSE(Fbarrel))

 STATEV(1)=BBAR_TRIAL_NN(1,1)

      STATEV(2)=BBAR_TRIAL_NN(2,2)

      STATEV(3)=BBAR_TRIAL_NN(3,3)

      STATEV(4)=BBAR_TRIAL_NN(1,2)

      STATEV(5)=BBAR_TRIAL_NN(2,3)

      STATEV(6)=BBAR_TRIAL_NN(1,3)

     STATEV(7)=Beta_zero

      i dont seem to be able to update bbar_trial_nn. when i write bbar_trial_nn all the terms are zero. 

by the way i also used *initial condition, type=solution

elem,1,1,1,0,0,0,0 with elem being the name of my element.

any help would be highly appreciated.