He stared at the offending fence, a broken piece of wood mocking him. The dog, a fluffy menace, was on his lawn again, gleefully chasing a squirrel. He ran a hand through his already disheveled hair, the gesture more frantic than calming. His jaw clenched tight, muscles screaming in protest. This was the third time *today*. The bills were piling up, his boss was breathing down his neck, and now this… this persistent, fluffy escape artist. A sharp, frustrated sigh escaped his lips. He wanted to scream.

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:
S0.385
😫0.332
πŸ˜–0.319
😣0.319
😩0.314
Suppressed:
la-0.576
de-0.496
a-0.297
happy-0.290
l-0.264