overwhelmed - Story 99072 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She felt a strange constriction in her throat, making it difficult to breathe. The presentation was due tomorrow, and Sarah hadn't even started. Her laptop screen displayed a blank slide, mocking her. The silence of her apartment amplified the frantic drumming of her own heart. She felt as though a great weight had been placed upon her.

A new message popped up from "CosmicDreamer," her online confidant. They'd been sharing stories for months, offering each other support. He knew her struggles. "Ready to meet?" it read.

Her phone slipped from her grasp and landed with a soft thud on the carpet. The sudden quiet was almost deafening. Her breath caught in her throat. She found herself staring at the window, desperate for an escape.

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