overwhelmed - Story 99200 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"He's got the same teacher I did," Ben said to his friend, a little perplexed. "Mr. Hanson!" Sarah froze. The news hit her with the force of a tidal wave. Mr. Hanson, who used to scare her to death. The same Mr. Hanson who would make her feel small, every time she got something wrong.

A sharp pain shot up her neck. Her stomach twisted, as the past came back to her with a vengeance. She forced a smile to her face.

Later that evening, she sat alone in her room, staring at the ceiling. The walls seemed to be closing in around her, and she found it hard to breathe.

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