overwhelmed - Story 99433 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang incessantly. Sarah ignored it. The incessant shrilling grated on her nerves. She stared at the stack of unopened mail, each envelope a reminder of the mounting bills, the constant pressure. Each one seemed to press down on her.

Her grandmother’s recipe, *Rose’s Raspberry Ripple,* had become *“The Crimson Kiss”* in a celebrity chef’s cookbook. Suddenly everyone wanted it. Suddenly, everyone wanted *her*.

She gripped the edge of the kitchen table, her knuckles white. Her breath hitched. She couldn’t even bring herself to make a cup of tea, the simplest of comforts. She felt a profound sense of paralysis.

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