trapped - Story 153122 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Another hour," the gate agent’s voice boomed, amplified through the speakers. Sarah’s breath hitched. She ran a hand through her hair, already tangled and frazzled. The airport felt like a cage, the echoing announcements the bars. The floor beneath her seemed to shift and tilt slightly. Her stomach twisted into knots. She needed to be on that train. Her daughter was alone, awaiting her arrival at the station, and the later the arrival, the greater the punishment.

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