overwhelmed - Story 99314 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny apartment felt smaller than usual. Sam walked in, his shoulders slumped. He heard a voice, his heart quickening in his chest. “Come in!” his partner, Alex, called out. Sam found him in the kitchen, apron on, humming. Then Alex turned around.

“Hola, mi amor!” he beamed, and the room tilted. Sam felt a strange buzzing in his ears.

He dropped his keys. The clatter echoed in the suddenly silent space. Alex began to speak at length, and Sam felt his vision narrow. He needed air, desperately. He bolted from the room.

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