overwhelmed - Story 99016 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his son, across the dining table. The boy's eyes, usually alight with mischief, now held a strange, unsettling stillness. The boy was speaking of rituals and beliefs that seemed utterly foreign to him. His hands were clasped so tightly together that the knuckles were white. The room felt cold, the pleasant aroma of the chicken dinner suddenly repulsive. He took a long, unsteady breath, trying to speak, but the words caught in his throat.

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