overwhelmed - Story 99046 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blueprints, his face a mask of frustration. The plans for his own remodeling project, meticulously drawn, now seemed like a cruel joke. He had invested so much in this, and now, it was all being threatened by the noise and the mess next door.

His patience, already thin, frayed further with each deafening blow. He wanted to scream, to lash out, but he knew that wouldn't help. He took a deep breath, trying to calm the tremor in his hands.

He imagined himself as a small boat, battling a violent storm. The waves of noise and disruption crashed over him, threatening to capsize him. He felt powerless, utterly helpless to control the chaos surrounding him.

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