trapped - Story 153502 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She felt the prickle of anxiety across her shoulders. The dog again. A blur of brown and white, it was on the lawn, digging at her prized petunias. She should go outside, she knew. She should confront the owner, demand they fix their flimsy fence. But the thought of it tightened her chest. It was a day for work, and it needed doing. She moved to the window, and saw the dog, still out there. She breathed out slow and even, and closed the curtains.

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