overwhelmed - Story 99084 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"A fence, huh?" David muttered, his voice barely a whisper. He reread the flyer tacked to his door. He just wanted a quiet evening at home. The thought of this, the potential discussions with the neighbor, filled him with unease.

He pushed the door shut, leaning against it. His heart hammered in his chest, a frantic drumbeat against his ribs. He pictured the fence, imagined the construction, the sounds, the mess.

He went to the fridge, opened it, stared at the contents, and slammed it shut without taking anything. He wandered aimlessly through the house, unable to settle. A cold sweat prickled at his skin.

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