overwhelmed - Story 99627 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news arrived in a text message from a friend: Ms. Jones, her drama teacher, had followed her on Instagram. Chloe’s shoulders slumped. She had a public account where she posted about her passion for acting. This should have been a good thing.

A knot formed in her stomach. The rehearsals for the play, the expectations from her peers, the upcoming auditions, and the general feeling of inadequacy threatened to overwhelm her. She felt a throbbing ache behind her eyes.

She clutched her phone, her knuckles white. She looked around the room, which suddenly felt cramped and stifling. She needed to be alone.

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