He crumpled the notice, throwing it across the room. "Damn it," Mark spat, the word laced with venom. His jaw clenched, muscles in his neck standing out. The walls seemed to vibrate with his suppressed rage.

He kicked a chair, sending it skittering across the floor. He wanted to break something, to release the torrent of frustration that had been building for weeks. The air crackled with a volatile energy.

He slammed his fist against the wall, a sudden, explosive act that left his hand throbbing. He took a shaky breath, the pain a temporary distraction from the crushing weight.

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:
S0.385
😫0.332
😖0.319
😣0.319
😩0.314
Suppressed:
la-0.576
de-0.496
a-0.297
happy-0.290
l-0.264