trapped - Story 153480 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He held the package, turning it over in his hands. *"To: Samuel Hayes."* He felt it in his chest, a tightness, a constriction. He took a deep breath, trying to steady his nerves. The walls of his apartment seemed to close in, and he felt a desperate urge to get out.

He grabbed a knife and tore into the cardboard. Inside was a collection of blank journals, bound in leather, waiting to be filled. He stared at them for a long time, then threw them across the room.

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