overwhelmed - Story 99328 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The headline seared itself into his memory: "Another Mediocre Meal." Chef Rafael felt a sudden, debilitating fatigue. He sank onto a stool, the world tilting slightly. The bright lights of the kitchen seemed to pulse, and the familiar aromas of cooking food became sickeningly sweet. He closed his eyes, trying to block out the cacophony of the kitchen. He could feel a rising tide of nausea. He just wanted it all to stop.

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