overwhelmed - Story 99708 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The numbers swam before Olivia's eyes. Another quarter closing, another avalanche of data. She pressed her fingertips into her temples, trying to quell the throbbing ache that was building behind her eyes. The air felt thick, heavy with unspoken expectations.

Across the room, Tom whistled softly as he approached. "Olivia, I haven't seen one of those in years. Is that a Camp Firefly patch on your bag?"

Olivia blinked. The knot in her stomach eased slightly. "Yeah, it is," she replied, her voice regaining a hint of its usual timbre.

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