overwhelmed - Story 99541 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah’s fingers trembled as she scrolled. It had started innocently enough, a casual glance at her daughter Chloe’s phone while she charged it. A notification, a profile picture she didn't recognize. The account name: 'ShadowKitty13'. The pit in her stomach was a familiar ache, a relentless, gnawing thing.

She clicked on the profile, her heart hammering against her ribs. The photos. Party pictures. With boys she didn’t know. Chloe, laughing, a side of her that Sarah rarely saw. Her breath hitched.

The world seemed to shrink, the walls closing in. She felt as though she couldn't breathe, the air thick and heavy. A wave of nausea washed over her. She gripped the kitchen counter, needing the solidity, the grounding. Chloe was upstairs, blissfully unaware. Sarah needed to compose herself. How?

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