overwhelmed - Story 99567 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The venue was already full of decorations, making her feel as though the walls were closing in. She felt as though she’d bitten off more than she could chew and was now choking.

She looked around at the happy faces, at the bustle of activity, and a wave of nausea washed over her. She tried to smile, to appear engaged, but her jaw felt stiff, and the muscles felt heavy, weighted with the unspoken demands.

She needed to get away.

Her palms were slick with sweat. She excused herself, muttering something about fresh air, and stumbled outside.

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