overwhelmed - Story 99014 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air grew heavy in the small, cluttered dining room. It felt like the walls were closing in, the scent of pot roast suddenly acrid. Liam found himself tapping his foot, a frantic rhythm that mirrored the racing pulse in his ears. His father’s impassioned explanations of a new God – one so different from the one they shared – filled his head like a cacophony of jarring notes. He excused himself, muttering something about needing air, and fled outside, gasping for breath.

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