overwhelmed - Story 99205 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the driveway screamed at her. Her Honda Civic was not there. She had to take her daughter to the doctor's, who had an appointment scheduled for 9 a.m. This was not the time for this.

She felt a wave of nausea roll through her. She ran her hand through her hair, her fingers snagging on the rough ends. She felt her throat tighten, and fought the urge to cry. Her phone began to feel like a ton of bricks.

She tried to take a deep breath, but the air caught in her chest, a strangled gasp. It all felt like a bad dream. She had to fix this, and she had to fix it now. The thought alone made her legs feel shaky.

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