overwhelmed - Story 99701 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The spreadsheet blurred before Amelia's eyes. Another deadline loomed. Another mountain of data to sift through. Her shoulders were bunched so tightly they felt like concrete. “Just breathe,” she muttered, the words catching in her constricted throat.

Across the sterile office, Mark was fiddling with a pen, clicking it repeatedly, a nervous staccato. He looked up, his gaze meeting hers for a fleeting second before he looked away, and she saw a flicker of something she couldn’t quite place.

"Hey, Amelia," Mark said, his voice hesitant. "That camp sweatshirt… is that from Camp Whispering Pines?"

Her breath hitched. She hadn't thought about that place in years. A wave of dizziness swept over her. "Yeah," she managed, her voice thin.

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