trapped - Story 153357 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic stairs creaked under Liam's weight. He braced himself, knowing this was where the secrets of the house lay hidden. He hated this feeling, but he knew he was compelled to sort through the contents of the house. He forced himself to take a breath.

He found a journal, its cover worn and faded. The first entry detailed the author's anxieties, her feeling of being stifled. Liam felt his own breath hitch. He turned the page, the words blurring before his eyes. It was too much; he felt himself caught in a tightening spiral, unable to escape. He closed the journal, the snap echoing the emptiness in his chest.

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