trapped - Story 153510 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He watched the dog from the living room window, a small dachshund, its ears flopping in the breeze. He felt the familiar surge of frustration. He paced the room, back and forth, the worn rug soft beneath his feet. The dog, a symbol of freedom he could no longer find, nipped at his azalea bushes. He rubbed his temples, a dull ache beginning to throb behind his eyes. He stopped pacing. The house felt suffocating. He needed to be anywhere but there. But he stayed.

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