overwhelmed - Story 99078 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The party was already in full swing, the music a loud and unrelenting assault on Daniel's senses. He'd agreed to come, hoping to break out of his shell, but now he regretted it. He felt trapped.

He spotted a familiar face across the room, it was "PixelatedPioneer," his online coding mentor. They had planned to meet at this party. Daniel felt his face flush with heat.

He maneuvered to the bathroom, the noise and the crowds suddenly unbearable. He slammed the door behind him and took deep breaths. He stared into the mirror and felt a wave of nausea.

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