overwhelmed - Story 99136 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, what do you think?" Her roommate asked, concern lacing her voice. He couldn't meet her gaze. He just shrugged, trying to appear nonchalant, but his voice cracked as he attempted to feign indifference.

He picked at a loose thread on his jeans, unable to meet her concerned gaze. He told her nothing, but his mind raced through all the scenarios. Expulsion? A failing grade? The potential for permanent damage to his academic record was terrifying.

He got up abruptly, mumbling an excuse about needing to study, and retreated into his room, slamming the door behind him. He needed to be alone, to try to make sense of the tangled web of events that had ensnared him.

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