overwhelmed - Story 99654 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny apartment felt like a pressure cooker. The air hung thick and heavy, carrying the scent of stale takeout and unwashed laundry. Liam paced the cramped space, his hands clasped behind his back. He needed to find a job. He needed to pay rent. He needed to get his life together. He grabbed his phone and intended to text a potential employer. He wrote: "I could really use this job. Please." He did not realize he sent it to his dad, who already helped with his living expenses.

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