overwhelmed - Story 99295 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No, no, no," Maya muttered, her voice barely above a whisper. The phone slipped from her numb fingers, landing with a soft thud on the rug. The party, meticulously crafted over months, was gone. Just like that. She felt a strange buzzing in her ears. Her carefully planned outfit lay discarded on her bed, a symbol of a dream now shattered. She sank to the floor, her back against the cool wall, and wrapped her arms around herself, trying to create some sort of shelter in this sudden storm.

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