trapped - Story 153918 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cloying scent of lilies hung in the air as Emily spoke to her new neighbor. "It just needs to go," Mrs. Albright said, gesturing towards the ancient birch. Emily felt a tightening in her chest, the air becoming difficult to draw.

She ran her hand over the rough bark of the birch, its familiar texture a comfort. The birch represented her privacy.

The thought of a vast, empty space where the birch stood made her palms sweat. It felt as though a cage was shrinking around her, its bars closing in.

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