trapped - Story 153654 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny apartment felt smaller than usual, the shadows lengthening with the setting sun. I'd been planning to text my sister, "Can't sleep, don't know what to do," but instead, my clumsy fingers sent the message to my estranged father. Years of silence hung heavy between us. Now what? The thought of his inevitable response, his probing questions, made my chest ache. I felt myself sinking further into the worn sofa cushions. The walls pressed in.

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