overwhelmed - Story 99499 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed his fist on the table, the sound reverberating through the small, cramped office. David felt a jolt of pain in his hand, a sharp, physical sensation that momentarily distracted him from the document. Someone else had his idea, a revolutionary recycling bin. He was a second place, a runner-up, a footnote. The air in the room felt thick, heavy, as though the walls were closing in. He felt the rapid thrum of his pulse in his ears, an insistent, frantic rhythm.

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