overwhelmed - Story 99075 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The heat of the subway pressed in on him, making it hard to concentrate. The cacophony of screeching brakes and chattering passengers was unbearable. David felt as if he was struggling for air. He was on his way to meet "Bookworm," his online book club companion. They'd been discussing the same book for months, building a strong friendship.

He clutched the well-worn copy of the book he was carrying, his knuckles white. The thought of a real-life encounter was suddenly unbearable.

He spotted her standing on the platform, holding a copy of the same book. His legs felt like lead, and he turned to walk in the opposite direction, his heart thumping.

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