trapped - Story 153816 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Take a seat, Mr. Henderson.” The therapist’s voice was smooth, too smooth. Paul felt the urge to flee. He recognized the voice. It was Kevin, the kid who had constantly picked on him in middle school. The office was small, the walls closing in. The polite smile on Kevin's face felt like a mockery. Paul could feel the walls closing in. He felt held in place. He was at his breaking point.

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