overwhelmed - Story 99195 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Mom, Mrs. Rodriguez is my teacher!” ten-year-old Ben chirped, bursting through the door after his first day. Laura felt a jolt. Mrs. Rodriguez? The strict, no-nonsense teacher who had once given Laura a failing grade in penmanship?

Her heart began to race. She tried to smile, but her lips felt stiff. Ben's excitement was contagious, but it wasn't enough to shake her. It was a lot to take in.

"That's wonderful, honey," she managed, her voice thin. She turned away quickly and busied herself with the dinner preparations, her movements frantic and inefficient. The air felt heavy, pressing on her shoulders.

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