overwhelmed - Story 99436 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the television screen. There was Gordon Ramsey, flamboyantly praising the *“Devilishly Decadent Chocolate Cake!”* – identical in every detail to his grandmother’s recipe, *Evelyn’s Everyday Delight.* John felt a wave of nausea wash over him.

He slammed his fist on the table. The remote control jumped. He abruptly stood up and began pacing the living room, his steps rapid, erratic. His muscles felt tight, rigid. He needed air. He needed to escape.

He abruptly threw open the front door and walked out.

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