I heard the words, and the world seemed to tilt on its axis. My brother, formerly a free spirit, was now a devoted follower of a strict evangelical church. The air in the room was electric with his newfound conviction. I tried to smile, to offer support, but the words stuck in my throat. I felt a coldness spread through my limbs, a paralysis that rooted me to the spot. I needed to breathe, to think, to be alone, but the door felt miles away.

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:
S0.573
ness0.401
无法0.366
hopeless0.360
😞0.353
Suppressed:
la-0.740
de-0.376
l-0.339
several-0.323
excitedly-0.322