overwhelmed - Story 99568 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang again. It was the caterer for Chloe's party. She'd forgotten to confirm the vegetarian option. Her mouth went dry.

The afternoon sun blazed through the window, intensifying the heat already building inside her. Her vision blurred for a moment.

She rubbed her temples, trying to think. Chloe's party was later, but she still had so much to do for both.

She couldn’t catch her breath.

She managed to stammer out a confirmation, then hung up, her hands trembling.

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