overwhelmed - Story 99327 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant noise, the relentless pressure, the ever-present threat of a bad plate – it all coalesced in that one, devastating review. I stared at it, the words seeming to leap off the page, mocking me. My shoulders slumped, and I felt a wave of icy cold wash over me. I turned away, unable to look at the other cooks, at the staff waiting for orders. The weight of it all, the responsibility, threatened to crush me. I reached for the phone to call my wife.

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