overwhelmed - Story 99379 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her new home was like a monument to all the things she had to do. The endless list of tasks, the repairs that needed doing, the decorating choices that had to be made... It was a relentless tide. Her breath caught in her throat.

She needed to sit down, away from the chaos. She wandered through her new house. She found a corner and sat on the floor, breathing hard.

She found a door behind the fireplace. She pushed it open, curious about what lay beyond.

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