trapped - Story 153517 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found himself staring at the play sheet, the intricate diagrams a confusing jumble. His stomach twisted with the same familiar dread as he reviewed the drills. Each diagram on the page seemed to shrink the room, the walls pressing in. Coach Thompson was calling the others over to help.

The weight of expectations, the effort of endless practice, the dream. All of it felt like a heavy stone bearing down. He wanted to run away and hide.

He couldn't even meet his teammates' eyes, and the quiet buzz of the fluorescent lights was almost unbearable. He felt as if he were unable to take another step.

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