overwhelmed - Story 99178 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The party was loud, the music blaring, and the laughter grating. The room swam before Amelia's eyes. It was a party celebrating her "successful" friend, Jessica, and her career in finance. She just ran into her while working the graveyard shift at the gas station. Her jaw clenched.

Each forced smile, each congratulatory hug felt like a physical blow. The champagne tasted like acid in her mouth. She wanted to scream, to run, to disappear.

The room seemed to spin. She stumbled towards the nearest exit, needing air, space, a moment of silence.

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