overwhelmed - Story 99260 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection, barely recognizing the gaunt, drawn face staring back at him. The published article, under someone else's name, had turned his world upside down. He took a long, shaky breath, trying to calm the hammering in his chest.

The thought of facing anyone, of explaining, of fighting, filled him with a potent aversion. He shut the blinds, plunging the room into semi-darkness. He sank onto the bed, pulling the covers over his head, seeking refuge from the world outside.

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