overwhelmed - Story 99547 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The digital glow reflected in Daniel’s wide eyes. He felt a throbbing ache behind his eyes. He had found his son, Ethan's, profile. Full of things he didn’t understand, things that seemed… dangerous. He felt an intense pressure building in his head.

He let out a shaky breath, the air whistling through his parted lips. He wanted to lash out. To scream. To demand answers. But he couldn't. Not yet.

He picked up a pen and started scribbling on a notepad, but couldn't make any sense of it. The words blurred into meaningless lines. He felt so lost. The world had tilted on its axis, and he didn’t know how to right it.

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