overwhelmed - Story 99325 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“A culinary disaster,” the words screamed from the page. I threw the review down, the paper slapping loudly against the table. My stomach twisted into a knot, and I felt a hot flush creep up my neck. I needed to move, to do *something*. I grabbed a dish towel and began furiously wiping down the already spotless counter, unable to stop the frantic motion. Everything seemed to be closing in on me, the walls of the kitchen shrinking, the air thick and heavy.

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