overwhelmed - Story 99508 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the kitchen, a stark contrast to the growing tension. Her heart raced, a frantic drumbeat against her ribs. The dog. Again. She pushed the plate of warm rolls away, her appetite suddenly gone. She needed to clean the house, call her mother, and finish that article. It was all a massive, chaotic jumble. She felt a strange tingling sensation in her fingertips, a sign that everything was about to explode.

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