overwhelmed - Story 99647 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The break room was a cacophony of hushed voices and frantic energy. Carol stared at the overflowing coffee pot, unable to bring herself to fill her own cup. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat of worry. She’d just invested in a new house.

She closed her eyes, trying to visualize a calm moment, a peaceful scene. It didn't work. The faces of her colleagues, etched with concern, swam before her. She wished she could just disappear.

"What am I supposed to do?" she said, her voice barely above a whisper.

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