trapped - Story 153807 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, cluttered apartment felt oppressive. Sarah ran a hand across the peeling wallpaper, each imperfection a detail of the life she knew. Her father’s betrayal – a half-brother she never knew – had warped her perception of security. She felt the walls closing in on her.

She paced. Back and forth, back and forth. Her heart hammered against her ribs. She needed an escape. Grabbing her keys, she yanked open the front door and stepped outside, the city's noise a sudden, welcome assault on her senses. The world at least was vast.

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