trapped - Story 153017 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“We’ll be fasting every Friday now,” her sister said, her face aglow with the light of the new faith. Her stomach lurched. The family kitchen, once a place of comfort and shared meals, now seemed like a battlefield. She pushed the food around her plate, appetite gone. The familiar routine, the rhythm of their lives, had been shattered. She picked at the skin around her nails, a nervous habit she hadn’t indulged in since childhood.

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