overwhelmed - Story 99365 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Not another thing,” I breathed, a whisper lost to the rising wind. I hated that I had to check the mail today, that I couldn't just ignore it. I hated all the little things, the countless things I had to remember.

The card, addressed to "Someone Special," felt like a weight in my hands. The paper felt slick against my skin, and my pulse raced.

I clutched the card to my chest, the image of it now burned into my eyelids. I just wanted to go inside, to close the door, and to not think for a little while. That wasn't an option.

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