trapped - Story 153837 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The numbers blurred before her eyes. "How could he?" thought Susan. Her husband, John, had always given the impression of being content with their lifestyle, working a steady job, living a predictable life. This secret account revealed a completely different reality.

She felt a sharp pain in her temples, a feeling of being hemmed in. Her home, a place of supposed security, suddenly felt like a prison. She considered calling her sister, but the thought of the conversation was exhausting.

The familiar routines of her day – the morning coffee, the evening news – now seemed like a cruel joke.

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