overwhelmed - Story 99073 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant noise of the coffee shop grated on Elias’s nerves. He hadn’t slept well for days. The looming deadline for his project, the bills piling up, and now... this. His online gaming buddy, "ShadowKing99," was waiting at a table, their first face-to-face meeting.

He pushed his half-finished latte away, the taste suddenly bitter. His stomach twisted into a knot. He glanced at the door, considering a hasty retreat. He imagined a thousand conversations racing through his mind, and all of them were chaotic.

The bell above the door chimed, and a woman with bright purple hair walked in, holding a controller in one hand. She scanned the room. Elias's throat dried, his pulse quickening.

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