overwhelmed - Story 99040 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the book in his hands felt like a burden he could no longer bear. He held it out and dropped it to the floor. The sound of the thud echoed in the apartment. His eyes darted around the room, searching for an escape route, a way to flee from the truth.

His head pounded. He ran his fingers through his hair, tugging at the roots. His throat felt tight. He felt like a prisoner in his own body. He had the sudden, desperate urge to flee, to run as far and as fast as he could.

He didn't know where to go, but he knew he couldn’t stay. He stumbled towards the door, his movements frantic and uncoordinated. He yanked it open, the cold air rushing in.

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