overwhelmed - Story 99707 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights buzzed, a high-pitched whine that seemed to burrow into Kevin's skull. He reread the email, his eyes darting back and forth across the screen, each word becoming more meaningless than the last. The weight of his responsibilities threatened to crush him. He ran a hand through his hair, feeling the dampness of his forehead.

He looked over at Jessica, who was now staring at him, and pointed to a sticker on his laptop. "Hey, Kevin, is that a Camp Blue Lake sticker?"

He nodded, suddenly unsure. He felt a strange sensation of being unmoored.

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