overwhelmed - Story 99158 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Across the dinner table, Liam was practically vibrating with excitement. "I aced the interview!" he exclaimed, beaming. She forced a smile, but it felt wooden and unnatural on her face. Her food tasted like cardboard. Her appetite was completely gone, and she just picked at it. The words of encouragement felt like a distant echo, drowned out by the internal pressure that had been building inside her, and that became stronger with every word he uttered. She excused herself, claiming a headache.

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