overwhelmed - Story 99417 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery swam before Daniel’s eyes. He found the wallet near the entrance, a collection of expensive paintings staring back at him. The thought of all the struggling artists he knew, all the unpaid bills, all the dreams deferred, felt like a physical blow.

He wandered through the exhibits, the hushed whispers and the polished floors doing nothing to soothe his inner turmoil. He kept touching his pocket, as if the wallet would disappear if he didn’t hold it tight.

He noticed his breathing was becoming shallow and fast.

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