trapped - Story 153437 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colours of the "Rainbow Risotto" on the restaurant menu mocked her. It was her recipe, her unique blend of spices and vegetables, stolen and now celebrated as a chef's innovation. She found herself in her cluttered kitchen, unable to touch anything.

She stared at her hands, still stained with the colours of the dish. She felt the sudden urge to run, to escape the confines of her life. She pushed herself up from the kitchen table, the air in the small room stifling. Her heart pounded a desperate rhythm in her 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