trapped - Story 153696 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Another late night, Michael?” The cleaning lady asked as she passed him. He couldn’t bring himself to answer, just gave a short nod. The dim glow of his computer screen cast long shadows across his office. He had been here for hours, re-reading the same documents.

He felt a deep sense of unease settle in him. The feeling was a tight knot in his chest. He was up for the promotion, and he knew he had performed well. But he couldn’t shake the sense of being caught in a maze.

He had promised his family he would be home for dinner. He looked at the time. He wouldn't be able to make it. He sighed.

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