overwhelmed - Story 99628 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It happened during a late-night study session. Ben saw that Mr. Carter, his computer science teacher, had followed him on GitHub. Ben was excited about coding. He wasn't excited about this.

He froze. He felt a creeping heat spreading through his body. His project, the upcoming presentation, the college applications, and the looming fear of failure all seemed to converge. He felt a sudden, crushing sense of helplessness.

He slammed his laptop shut, the sound a sharp crack in the silence. He buried his face in his hands, feeling utterly defeated.

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