trapped - Story 153579 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar scent of cinnamon and sugar filled the air of the bakery, a constant comfort from his childhood. He had spotted Ben behind the counter, looking older, but still familiar. He wanted to share a story, to feel that connection again.

"Ben, right?" he asked. Ben nodded, looked up at him, a polite smile on his face.

“Can I help you?” he asked, his voice friendly, yet distant. He felt his heart plummet. The warmth of the bakery suddenly felt stifling. He felt a pressure build behind his eyes, a sensation of being utterly alone.

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