overwhelmed - Story 99426 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, great," Amelia mumbled, dropping the invitation onto the pile of already-unread mail. A knot formed in her stomach, a physical representation of her dread. She felt her pulse quicken, her heart thudding against her ribs. She couldn't breathe.

She fumbled for her phone, scrolling through contacts, seeking a lifeline. A friend? Her mother? No, she couldn’t talk to anyone. She felt a wave of isolation wash over her. She stared at the ceiling, feeling the walls closing in, the air thick and stifling. She needed to get out, to escape.

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