overwhelmed - Story 99509 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt his vision narrow as the dog, a goofy Labrador, trotted across his patio. He was already behind on his errands, his car needed an oil change, and the electricity bill was overdue. Now, this distraction. He gripped the edge of the kitchen counter, needing something solid to anchor him. His pulse quickened, a frantic hummingbird trapped in his chest. He closed his eyes, took a shallow breath, and pushed himself to the door.

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