overwhelmed - Story 99570 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The guest list, a sea of names and obligations, stared back at her from the screen. She pushed back from her desk, the chair scraping loudly against the floor. A wave of exhaustion washed over her.

She had agreed to coordinate both parties, and the consequences of her choices were now crashing down on her.

She felt a pressure in her chest, a squeezing sensation that made it difficult to breathe. She closed her eyes, and tears began to prick at her eyelids. This felt impossible.

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