trapped - Story 153813 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The humidity clung to Anna as she walked the streets, the air thick and heavy. Her shoulders were hunched. She felt the gaze of the city pressing down on her. She'd seen the advertisement, the one featuring a photo of Liam, her former tormentor, with a comforting smile. He was advertising therapy sessions. Liam, who used to delight in making her cry. The idea of baring her soul to him, of being vulnerable in front of the person who'd reveled in her weakness, tightened her throat. She found herself unable to move. Each step was a struggle.

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