trapped - Story 153970 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the house was oppressive. He’d found the list while tidying up the garden shed. "Grow a garden." "Go on a road trip." "Be free." He felt a strange tension in his shoulders, a feeling of constraint. The familiar smell of damp earth and fertilizer usually soothed him.

Now, he felt a sharp stab of... something, a sharp and painful feeling as he looked at the weeds sprouting in the flowerbeds. He felt a desperate urge to break free, to run, even if he didn’t know where he was going. The sun, suddenly too bright, beat down on him.

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