Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the storm brewing inside her. He was late again, a pattern that had become infuriating. She paced the length of the living room, her bare feet cold against the polished wood floor. When he finally arrived, his phone was already pressed to his ear. He muttered something about work, but his voice was evasive, his gaze flitting around the room, avoiding hers. She felt a heavy weight pressing her down, a sense of being hemmed in by invisible walls.

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