overwhelmed - Story 99080 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant flow of information on the news made her head spin. She felt a constant tension in her shoulders. The weight of the world, it seemed, rested on her. She'd been struggling to cope, and every task felt like scaling a mountain.

Suddenly, a message from "NightOwl," her online meditation friend: "I'm at the cafe. Looking forward to our chat!" She'd been hoping to meet, and now she felt frozen.

She closed her eyes, trying to breathe, but her chest felt constricted. The world seemed to shrink around her. She struggled to gather herself, trying to remember what to do next.

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