overwhelmed - Story 99657 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant ringing of the phone amplified the pressure. It was all a barrage of demands and expectations. She was supposed to finish a project, pick up the kids, and prepare dinner. Her head throbbed. She felt a knot in her stomach. She needed to tell her husband that he needed to pick up dinner. She grabbed her phone and typed, "I can't do any of this." The message sent. She realized the message had gone to her client, not her husband.

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