overwhelmed - Story 99318 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive home was longer than usual. The sun had set, casting long shadows. Inside their house, he saw his husband, Mark, sitting at the kitchen table, a book open. A language book.

He set his bag down, and he felt his stomach turn. Mark looked up, and his smile faltered. He spoke, a few halting phrases. The words echoed in the space.

He didn't know what to say. His throat closed up. His hands began to shake. He had to get out. He ran for the door.

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