trapped - Story 153278 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of cleaning products and the fluorescent lights of the new cafeteria filled Liam's senses. He hated his new role in food service. He used to find such solace in his art. He missed the creative community he left behind. He stared at the long line of people in front of him, each face a blur of indifference. He took a deep breath, and the feeling of restriction returned, a heavy cloak he had to wear for the rest of his day.

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