overwhelmed - Story 99309 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the office was broken only by the incessant clicking of keyboards. Lisa stared at the screen, the lines of code blurring before her eyes. The news had hit her like a punch to the gut. Her supervisor’s new assistant, younger than her, made more than her. After five years of working, she was not getting paid as much as someone new to the office.

She felt a wave of dizziness, and had to sit down. She felt like the weight of the world was pressing down on her. The air in the office felt tight, and she started to find it difficult to breathe. She leaned back in her chair, closing her eyes, attempting to focus on her breathing.

She needed to leave. Now. But her feet felt glued to the floor.

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