overwhelmed - Story 99432 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the laptop shut. Sweat beaded on Leo’s forehead. The article, *“Sensation Sweeping the Nation: The Zesty Zing of Chef Ricardo’s Citrus Surprise!”* – a glowing review of *his* lemon curd – mocked him from the screen. He needed to get away from the computer. Away from the constant notifications.

He ran a hand through his hair, the strands catching at his scalp. He felt like his head was going to explode. The pressure in his ears was building. He’d poured his heart and soul into that recipe.

He stumbled to the kitchen, grabbed a bottle of water, and gulped it down. He left the half-filled bottle on the countertop, and he felt the impulse to just leave everything where it was and just go.

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