overwhelmed - Story 99419 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of chlorine hung heavy in the air at the pool. Ava sat on the edge, her legs dangling, her eyes fixed on the shimmering water. The wallet in her hands felt like a burning coal. She couldn’t keep the money; she knew that, even though she needed it desperately.

Her head throbbed. She focused on the rhythmic splashing of the swimmers, the only sound that made any sense.

She felt a rising tide of panic. She could barely swallow. Her chest felt as if it was being compressed, tightened. This wasn't how her life was supposed to be.

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