trapped - Story 153507 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant green of her garden was marred by muddy paw prints. The dog, a scruffy mutt, was clearly enjoying himself, oblivious to the havoc he wreaked. She bit down on her lip, a familiar gesture. She ran her hands through her hair, finding knots and tangles. She needed to start, needed to go out, but the thought of confrontation, of the same arguments, felt like a wall she couldn't scale. She stayed still.

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