overwhelmed - Story 99702 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John scrubbed at his temples, trying to massage the pressure away. The project proposal was due in an hour, and the CEO's expectations were, to put it mildly, demanding. The fluorescent lights hummed, amplifying the tension in the room. He felt a cold sweat prickle his skin.

He glanced at Sarah, hunched over her laptop, her brow furrowed in concentration. She seemed a little frazzled too.

"Sarah," John said, voice raspy. "Is that a Camp Clearwater t-shirt?"

Sarah looked up, her expression shifting from focused to surprised. "John? You went there?" A memory, warm and unexpected, bloomed in her eyes.

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