overwhelmed - Story 99168 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room spun. Paul tried to maintain a casual air, but inside, his chest felt constricted. Each forced smile, each shallow breath, was an effort. He grabbed a glass of water, then another. The happy couple seemed to float in the air. The music was a relentless assault on his ears. He was keenly aware of every sensation, every sound.

He wanted to scream. He wanted to vanish.

He felt the hairs on the back of his neck prickle as he spotted her across the room. She was looking right at 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