trapped - Story 153025 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the house was suffocating. Every tick of the grandfather clock in the hallway felt like a hammer blow against Eleanor’s skull. Lily’s drawing lay on the coffee table: the familiar, lanky form with the button eyes. Eleanor felt a constriction in her throat. She found herself obsessively cleaning, scrubbing at surfaces until they gleamed, needing some physical outlet for the turmoil churning inside. She hadn’t left the house in days. She needed air, needed to break free from this suffocating stillness, but where could she even go?

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