overwhelmed - Story 99470 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"It's the only way," her uncle said, his voice quiet. The antique dollhouse, a miniature replica of their childhood home, stood in the corner of the room, dust motes dancing in the afternoon light. It had always been her sanctuary.

She felt a tremor run through her body, her hands clenching into fists. The room spun. She pressed her palms against her temples, trying to ground herself. Her chest felt constricted, making it hard to take a full breath. The world around her seemed to be closing in, shrinking with every passing moment.

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