overwhelmed - Story 99064 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news hit him like a physical blow. James sat frozen, the rejection email still open on his laptop screen. A tremor ran through his body, starting in his hands and spreading outwards. He felt a desperate urge to run, to escape. He abruptly stood up from his chair, knocking it back with a loud thud, and began pacing the small confines of his room, the wooden floorboards groaning with each hurried step. He needed to be anywhere but here, confronting this gutting disappointment.

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