overwhelmed - Story 99714 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The apartment felt small, the walls closing in on Leo. He stared at the eviction notice, his stomach twisting into a painful knot. He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture more frantic than calming. The world seemed to tilt on its axis.

He started frantically shoving clothes into a duffel bag, a chaotic flurry of motion with no clear purpose. He needed to *do* something, anything to alleviate the pressure building in his chest. The bag filled haphazardly, a testament to his rising panic.

He slumped onto the bed, the weight of everything suddenly collapsing on him. The world around him faded, replaced by a dull ache.

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