trapped - Story 153649 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement had come during a crucial meeting. Lisa had barely registered the words, the terms of the sale, the promises. She was focused on the feeling in her stomach, a leaden weight that threatened to pull her under. She excused herself and went out to the fire escape, needing to breathe.

She gazed down at the busy street below, the cars and people moving like ants. It was a dizzying height. It felt as if a heavy weight was compressing her chest. She needed to escape, to run, but she felt rooted to the spot.

The city sounds were all noise. It felt like her world was closing in, and she was stuck. She closed her eyes.

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