overwhelmed - Story 99710 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pressure felt relentless. Sarah felt a vice grip her stomach. The endless meetings, the incessant demands, the constant stream of information. She felt as though she was drowning, gasping for air in an ocean of obligations.

She watched, bewildered, as David walked towards her. He held up a well-worn lanyard with a faded logo.

"Sarah," he asked with a gentle smile. "Is that from Camp Silver Creek?"

The tension evaporated, replaced by a strange sense of peace. "It is," she said, her voice a whisper. "I forgot all about that place."

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