overwhelmed - Story 99674 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee went cold in the mug on Daniel's desk. Professor Ito, gone. Just like that. Daniel had spent countless hours in the lab, meticulously gathering data, and now, the foundation of his work, the guidance he'd relied upon, was disappearing. His head throbbed. He leaned back in his chair, staring at the ceiling, feeling a profound sense of disorientation. The weight of his project pressed down on him, suffocating.

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