“This is where you'll be,” the manager said, gesturing to a small, windowless office. Mark nodded, his throat tight, his voice catching in his throat. In his old role, in sales, he thrived on the interaction, the constant movement, the exhilaration of closing a deal. Now, transferred to the data analysis department, he was confined to crunching numbers, staring at spreadsheets for hours on end. He felt the walls closing in, a sense of constriction that was almost physical. He thought of all the projects he left behind.

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