overwhelmed - Story 99008 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Did you see?” His agent’s voice was too loud, too enthusiastic. He wanted the man to go away. He needed quiet. "It’s going viral! Your piece… immortalized!"

He stared at the gallery wall, at the framed print of his "Serene Valley." He had tried to capture the feeling of peace in the piece. Now, someone had marked their own skin with it. A stranger’s skin. The thought made him feel queasy.

He felt a sudden, intense heat, a flush spreading across his chest. He backed away from the gallery wall, needing space. The air in the room seemed to thicken, making it difficult to breathe. The joyful chatter of the other guests sounded distant, distorted. He wanted to scream.

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