overwhelmed - Story 99198 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Mr. Davis, eh?” James echoed his wife’s words, a hollow sound escaping his lips. His daughter, Sophie, was ecstatic about her new music teacher. James remembered Mr. Davis. His booming laugh, his uncanny ability to make everyone feel self-conscious.

James stared out the window, the image of Mr. Davis's face burned into his memory. His jaw felt tight. He felt a creeping sense of dread.

The evening light painted the room in long shadows, the space suddenly feeling claustrophobic. He couldn’t quite place it, but something felt decidedly wrong.

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