overwhelmed - Story 99359 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He forced his aching legs up the attic stairs. The house was relentless. Everything was a reminder of what he had to do, the work that never seemed to end.

He found a chest filled with old tools, rusted and forgotten. He felt a dull ache behind his eyes, a headache that wouldn't abate. The weight of responsibility felt crushing.

He slammed the chest shut, the sudden sound echoing in the stillness. He had to get out. He had to get some air.

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