overwhelmed - Story 99159 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The waiting room was a study in controlled tension. Each tick of the clock was an eternity. The air was thick with unspoken anxieties. Sarah sat ramrod straight, her back rigid against the hard chair. Her palms were slick with sweat. She scanned the faces of the other applicants, trying to gauge their experience, their confidence, their chances. She saw a young woman across the room tapping her foot rapidly, a physical manifestation of her own mounting stress.

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