overwhelmed - Story 99709 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the office was stale, thick with the scent of coffee and impending deadlines. Mark could feel the blood pounding in his temples, each pulse a reminder of the task before him. He kept re-reading the same sentence, unable to absorb the information. His breath came in shallow, rapid gasps.

He noticed Emily look up from her screen, gazing directly at him. She cocked her head, a smile playing on her lips. "Mark," she said, her voice soft. "Is that a Camp Green Valley t-shirt? I think I have the same one."

The world seemed to sharpen for a moment. He focused on her, and the tightness in his chest eased.

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