overwhelmed - Story 99062 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the rejection letter, the crisp paper mocking him. The words blurred before his eyes, a jumbled mess of disappointment. He tossed the letter onto his cluttered desk, the sound echoing in the small, cramped room. A dull ache throbbed behind his temples. He ran a hand through his already messy hair, tugging at the strands. This was it. The weight of his family's expectations pressed down on him, a suffocating blanket. “No,” he muttered, the word barely audible.

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