overwhelmed - Story 99440 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the billboard. A giant advertisement for *“The Golden Galaxy Granola,”* the very recipe that his late wife, Marie, had perfected. His heart felt like it was going to burst. The photograph, the branding, the smiling celebrity chef – all of it a knife to the gut.

Michael’s shoulders slumped. His gaze was fixed on the poster, but he saw nothing. His chest felt heavy, constricted. He wanted to go home, to hide, to simply cease to exist. The world spun. He abruptly turned and walked away.

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