overwhelmed - Story 99388 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cozy coffee shop, with its soft lighting and gentle music, had become a chamber of horrors. She clutched her mug, the ceramic offering little comfort against her trembling hands. The message. From Liam. Then, seconds later, from Noah. The same. The same.

A flush of heat spread across her chest, followed by a chilling wave. She felt a tightening in her chest, making it difficult to breathe. The world swam before her eyes. She gripped the table, knuckles white. She felt like she was drowning.

She just wanted the world to stop.

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