overwhelmed - Story 99368 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bright red of the card jumped out at him, a jarring contrast to the muted tones of the neighborhood. His vision swam. He’d forgotten to eat again. The thought of food was utterly repulsive.

He fumbled with the clasp on the mailbox, his movements jerky and uncoordinated. His head throbbed. He felt a profound inability to cope, a sense of paralysis that gripped him.

The card slipped from his grasp and landed with a gentle thud on the sidewalk. He just stared at it, the red color a cruel and pointed reminder of everything he felt he couldn’t manage.

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