overwhelmed - Story 99160 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The city blurred into a watercolor painting from the speeding bus window. James stared out, unable to focus on anything. The job application seemed to haunt him, every detail a reminder of his inadequacies. He’d spent hours preparing, yet the more he learned, the more he understood how vast his knowledge gaps were. His chest felt constricted. His breathing was shallow, and his vision was becoming hazy. He pressed his forehead against the cool glass, hoping for some relief, but there was none.

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