overwhelmed - Story 99199 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, Ms. Carter, huh?" Richard mumbled, staring at the class list. It felt like his chest had become a lead weight. Ms. Carter. The woman who’d given him detention for making a paper airplane.

He wanted to scream. His muscles tensed, and his shoulders seemed to hunch in on themselves. He ran a hand over his face.

The silence in his living room was deafening. He felt a deep, unsettling unease. He thought about calling his wife, then changed his mind. He didn't want to talk about it.

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