overwhelmed - Story 99577 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The relentless drumming of the rain against the windowpane mirrored the hammering in Ben’s chest. The small, cluttered bookstore was usually his sanctuary, but today, it felt like a cage. He'd imagined this moment a thousand times, each one filled with joyous reunions.

He spotted her, Jessica, browsing the poetry section. “Jessica?” he croaked, his voice barely audible above the storm.

She turned, her eyes widening slightly, but her brow furrowed in confusion. "I don't think so," she replied, her voice soft but firm. He felt like the ground had vanished beneath him.

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