overwhelmed - Story 99265 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the car was deafening. Alex stared out the window, watching the rain streak down the glass. The announcement of the track team roster had come just minutes ago. His parents, usually chatty, were unusually subdued.

His throat felt constricted. He felt as if a thick, invisible hand was squeezing his heart. He couldn't speak. He couldn't even breathe properly. The familiar landscape of their drive home blurred into a meaningless watercolor painting of green and grey. He squeezed his eyes shut.

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