overwhelmed - Story 99066 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He crumpled the letter in his hand, the paper crackling in protest. A wave of nausea surged through him. He tossed it into the trash, the action a small, futile act of defiance. The world seemed to tilt on its axis. He couldn’t breathe, his lungs refusing to expand. He stumbled into the kitchen, reaching for a glass of water, his hand shaking so badly that he spilled half of it on the counter. The coolness of the water was no relief.

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