overwhelmed - Story 99703 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ringing in Michael's ears intensified as he stared at the mounting stack of paperwork on his desk. Each document seemed to press in on him, the details swimming before his eyes. His stomach churned. He ran a hand through his hair, the strands catching on his sweaty palms.

He saw Emily, across the room, staring at his desk. He hadn’t noticed her before, lost in the suffocating weight of his obligations.

"Michael," Emily said, her voice soft. "Is that a Pine Ridge camp lanyard? I had one just like it."

He blinked. The world seemed to refocus. He felt a sudden, strange lightness. "You… you went to Pine Ridge?" he stammered, surprised.

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