overwhelmed - Story 99537 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a punch to the gut for Kevin. He slumped against the lockers, the metal cold and unyielding against his back. He stared at his feet, unable to meet anyone's gaze. The vibrant hallways, usually filled with laughter and gossip, suddenly felt muted, the sounds of life muffled. His heart hammered against his ribs, a frantic, irregular rhythm.

He felt the hot sting of tears behind his eyes, a sensation he hadn't experienced in years. The world tilted on its axis, and he felt a profound sense of loss, a future he had so meticulously built now crumbling before his very eyes.

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