trapped - Story 153389 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stood in the doorway, the doorframe feeling like a barrier. The smell of fresh-baked bread filled the air, a tempting aroma that did nothing to soothe the knot in his stomach. Inside, Amelia was setting the table, her smile warm and inviting. He was supposed to be here, to enjoy this domestic bliss, to be happy.

The same domestic bliss he’d also promised to Jessica. He knew he should act as if everything was normal. He knew he should hug her, kiss her, ask her about her day. He couldn't move. He felt like stone. He was being pulled in two directions, unable to commit, unable to escape. He forced himself to step inside, each step a reluctant march.

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