trapped - Story 153358 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was heavy, the light dim. The attic floorboards groaned beneath her feet. Emily had planned to sort, to organize. Instead, she found herself staring at a collection of old photographs. The faces of the people in the pictures were unfamiliar, yet their expressions seemed to mirror her own growing unease.

She lifted a photograph of a family. They all appeared happy, relaxed. The mother's expression, however, was unnerving; Emily's eyes kept being drawn back to her. A knot formed in Emily's stomach. She felt the urge to flee, to escape this place.

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