overwhelmed - Story 99069 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her stomach clenched, a physical manifestation of the crushing disappointment. She reread the rejection email, each word a fresh stab. Her throat constricted, making it difficult to swallow. The air in the room felt thick, heavy, like it was pressing in on her. She fumbled with the buttons of her jacket, wanting to escape the confines of her clothes and the space. She needed to breathe. She got up from her desk and walked, aimlessly, in circles.

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