overwhelmed - Story 99468 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vintage car, a sleek red convertible, stood in the garage, gleaming under the weak sunlight. His brother, inheriting it, was ready to part with it. Henry felt a wave of nausea sweep over him.

He leaned against the cold metal, a feeling of vertigo washing over him. The world tilted. He tried to focus on his breathing, but his lungs felt constricted. His vision blurred, and the sounds of the neighborhood faded into a dull roar. He desperately wished he could rewind time, go back to when things were simple.

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