trapped - Story 153891 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The red "C-" glared back at Maya from the stark white of the exam paper. She balled the paper in her fist, knuckles white. The air in the library, usually a haven of quiet focus, felt thick, suffocating. She couldn’t breathe. Sunlight streamed through the tall windows, mocking her with its brightness. The weight on her shoulders was immense, crushing. She couldn't understand how it was possible. Her parents, their expectations… She felt a compulsion to run, to escape the silent judgment of the other students, to disappear.

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