trapped - Story 153011 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The humid air of the Florida summer seemed to press down on her shoulders. Mom had just finished her pronouncements about finding “true peace” in Buddhism. Sarah picked at a loose thread on the floral couch, the pattern beginning to blur in her vision. She mumbled a response about maybe joining her at a meditation session, but the words felt hollow in her mouth. She felt a tightening in her chest, a slow, suffocating squeeze. Dinner was soon; she needed to find the energy to fake enthusiasm for the tofu stir-fry.

Emotion: trapped

Cluster: Sadness / Despair

PC1 (Valence): -3.02 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.80

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion trapped. 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 trapped stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the trapped emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the trapped vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.573
`ness`	0.401
`无法`	0.366
`hopeless`	0.360
`😞`	0.353

Suppressed:

`la`	-0.740
`de`	-0.376
`l`	-0.339
`several`	-0.323
`excitedly`	-0.322