trapped - Story 153652 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She felt a phantom pressure on her chest, a weight that had nothing to do with the heavy textbooks piled before her. Clara closed the book and ran a hand through her hair, which felt like lead. The exam was tomorrow, the pressure mounting with each hour. She’d intended to text her best friend, "Can't do this, feel like I'm drowning," but instead, it went to her mother. Clara bit her lip. Her mother would call, voice filled with a smothering mixture of concern and disappointment. She just wanted the world to shrink, to disappear. She needed to be 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