trapped - Story 153622 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam was building a tower of books in his bedroom, a futile attempt to block out the world. He'd seen the follow request from Ms. Rodriguez the night before. His fingers fumbled with a textbook, the spine cracking. He slammed it down, the sound echoing in the silent room. Freedom felt distant.

He hadn’t been able to eat, and the feeling of emptiness was all-consuming. He had been staying away from his friends as well. The vibrant colors of his room seemed dull, the posters on his wall mocking reminders of a life he couldn’t quite grasp. The world felt smaller, closing in on him with every passing hour. He felt a need to run but where?

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