Her breath hitched as she read the balance. The knowledge slammed into her, leaving her stunned. Her husband, Robert, had always been tight-lipped about money, but she’d assumed it was due to a lack of funds, not a hidden fortune.

She felt a hollowness spreading through her, a sensation of being unable to move. She slowly backed away from the table, not knowing where to go.

The weight of the house settled on her shoulders. She wanted the door. She wanted open space.

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:
S0.573
ness0.401
无法0.366
hopeless0.360
😞0.353
Suppressed:
la-0.740
de-0.376
l-0.339
several-0.323
excitedly-0.322