overwhelmed - Story 99323 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt distorted. Chef Marco read the review again, his vision swimming. Sweat beaded on his forehead, and his breath hitched in his throat. The tiny, cramped kitchen seemed to shrink, the scent of garlic and simmering sauces suddenly cloying, suffocating. He dropped his knife with a clatter, the sharp sound making him jump. He stared at the chaotic scene around him; the half-prepped ingredients, the bustling cooks, the relentless demands of the dinner rush. He wanted to scream.

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