overwhelmed - Story 100000 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Ava saw it on her friend’s laptop. "The Whispers of the Sea" was front and center, under the headline, "Student Success Stories." She felt a pressure building behind her eyes.

She bit her lip, holding back tears. She excused herself and ran to the bathroom. She didn’t know what to do. She turned the faucet on and splashed cold water on her face, trying to compose herself.

The water dripped off her chin as she stared at her reflection. She took a deep breath, and then another. The world still felt unsteady.

Emotion: overwhelmed

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -2.52 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.94

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion overwhelmed. 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 overwhelmed stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the overwhelmed emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the overwhelmed vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.385
`😫`	0.332
`😖`	0.319
`😣`	0.319
`😩`	0.314

Suppressed:

`la`	-0.576
`de`	-0.496
`a`	-0.297
`happy`	-0.290
`l`	-0.264