overwhelmed - Story 99386 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So... a few minutes longer," she repeated aloud, her voice barely a whisper. The quaint little bookstore, her favorite place, suddenly felt like a prison. The scent of old paper and leather, usually comforting, now felt acrid. The text, from Brian. The text, from Kevin. Same content. Same promise.

Her pulse hammered in her ears. She felt a burning sensation in her throat. She closed her eyes, fighting back tears. Everything felt wrong, off-kilter. She ran a hand through her hair, the movement jerky and frantic. The world was spinning.

She wanted to vanish.

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