overwhelmed - Story 99644 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The office air conditioning blasted cold air onto Michael’s face, but he still felt a burning heat building behind his eyes. He’d just finished a huge presentation, and he was so proud of it, but now it all felt… pointless. The new owners, whoever they were, would probably just want to rip it apart and start from scratch.

His hands shook as he took a sip of water. His throat was dry. He'd been looking forward to a relaxing evening. He scrubbed his fingers through his hair.

"I need to leave. Now," he muttered, closing his laptop.

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