overwhelmed - Story 99329 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He tore the review in half, then again, and again, until the paper was in tiny, useless fragments. Chef Kai looked around the kitchen, seeing only blurry shapes and the faces of his staff, each one a silent judgment. A wave of dizziness swept over him, and he stumbled back, nearly knocking over a pot of simmering stock. The familiar comfort of his craft had vanished. It was all a mistake, he thought, a terrible, monumental error.

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