overwhelmed - Story 99506 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From her kitchen window, she watched the dog bound across her carefully manicured lawn. Her hands instinctively flew to her temples, a futile attempt to ward off the pressure building there. She felt a knot forming in her stomach, a tight, twisting discomfort. She was trying to finish a painting, a deadline looming, and every single thing seemed to conspire against her. She felt a rush of heat, then a sudden chill. This was just too much.

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