overwhelmed - Story 99503 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell rang, a sharp, intrusive sound that sliced through the quiet. Her breath hitched. She knew what it was. The dog. Every single day, without fail. She ignored it, retreating further into the messy cocoon of her sofa. The persistent barks echoed in her ears, a relentless beat. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic rhythm against the rising tide of… everything. She pulled the blanket tighter, willing the noise to cease.

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