overwhelmed - Story 99390 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling marketplace, normally a vibrant symphony of sights and sounds, now felt chaotic and overwhelming. She stood frozen, the scent of spices and fresh bread no longer appealing. The message. From Ethan. Then, from Ryan. Her heart hammered against her ribs. She felt as though she couldn't breathe.

She felt a strange paralysis take hold of her body. The ground seemed to tilt beneath her feet. She closed her eyes, trying to focus, trying to regain control. The colors around her blurred into a dizzying swirl.

She wanted to run.

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