overwhelmed - Story 99067 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rejection notification blinked on her phone, taunting her. She immediately shut it off, as if that would make the words disappear. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat in her chest. She rose from her bed and wandered into the kitchen, aimlessly opening the refrigerator and staring at the contents. Nothing there could ease the hollowness that had suddenly descended. Her mind raced, a whirlwind of anxieties and fears.

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