overwhelmed - Story 99415 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car engine coughed and died. Amelia slammed her fist against the steering wheel. Her savings, depleted. The mechanic had quoted an astronomical fee. Now this. The wallet.

She glared at the sleek, expensive houses lining the street, the image of their owners' wealth mocking her predicament. She felt a burning in her cheeks, a flush of anger and frustration.

Her fingers trembled as she held the wallet, her thoughts racing. The weight of her own needs, the lack of control, the feeling of being trapped – it all rose up and threatened to suffocate her.

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