overwhelmed - Story 99299 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had been so looking forward to it. The elaborate plans, the secret meetings, the excited anticipation – all of it now seemed like a cruel joke. He walked into his home and kicked off his shoes, his shoulders slumped. A single tear traced a path down his cheek. The weight of disappointment pressed down on him, making it hard to breathe. He wanted to scream. He wanted to shout. He wanted the world to stop. He sat heavily on his bed, feeling the soft mattress fail to offer any comfort.

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