trapped - Story 153135 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the professor's gaze settled on Leo. He could feel it. The lecture hall, normally filled with the chatter of his classmates, was eerily silent. He felt hot, his cheeks burning. He needed to leave, to get away.

He tried to focus on the professor's words, but they were gibberish, a jumble of sounds that meant nothing. He was being made an example.

He wanted to protest his innocence, but the words would not come. He was frozen, a statue in the center of the room. The exits, usually simple pathways, seemed 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:

`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