overwhelmed - Story 99337 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news arrived in a rushed phone call from her best friend, the words tumbling out in a panicked rush. "The Pasta Palace… they're closing!" Her breath hitched, and she felt a sudden, profound sense of helplessness wash over her. She gripped the phone tighter, her knuckles turning white. The world around her seemed to tilt, the familiar patterns of her life dissolving into a chaotic jumble. She couldn't think. Couldn't speak. She needed to sit down, to brace herself against some solid reality, but her legs refused to obey.

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