overwhelmed - Story 99652 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blinking cursor, the blank page of the essay staring back. His mind was a jumbled mess, a collection of disconnected thoughts refusing to coalesce into coherent sentences. He felt a throbbing in his temples. He was supposed to finish this assignment tonight. He picked up his phone, needing something to distract himself for just a moment. He typed a quick message to his mother: "Need help with this assignment, don't know what to do." Before he could think it through, the message went out. He groaned as he saw the reply: "How are things with your therapist?" He had sent the message to his professor.

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