trapped - Story 153015 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of burning incense was thick in the air. Her mother, draped in flowing saffron robes, talked animatedly about her immersion in Hinduism. The small living room, usually a haven, now seemed foreign, unfamiliar. She sat rigidly on the floor cushions, trying to maintain eye contact, the pressure in her temples growing with each sentence. She longed for the familiarity of her old bedroom, the clutter of her life, the unspoken agreements. The feeling in her gut churned.

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