overwhelmed - Story 99320 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the day settled on his shoulders. He walked in, relieved to be home. Then he heard a voice. His partner, Chloe, called out. He found her with a tablet, headphones on.

She removed them, and her expression was bright. She spoke a few words, and then the world seemed to shift slightly. His breathing grew shallow.

He looked around the room, trying to find something to focus on, something to anchor him. But everything seemed to be moving, shifting, out of reach. He felt a crushing sense of isolation.

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