overwhelmed - Story 99065 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“No, no, no,” Amelia whispered, the words catching in her throat. The screen swam before her eyes. The dream, so close, felt now impossibly far. She let out a shaky sigh and reached for her phone, intending to call her mother, but hesitated. How could she possibly say the words? She set the phone down with a dull thud. Tears streamed down her face, and she buried her face in her hands, attempting to muffle the sounds of her upset. The silence was deafening.

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