overwhelmed - Story 99731 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The takeout container felt heavy in Sarah's hands, a physical manifestation of something else pressing down on her. Empty, she thought. Like everything. The flimsy plastic lid wobbled precariously as she walked, the steam from the pad thai already fogging her glasses. Across the country. Across all of it. A giggle escaped her, a choked-off sound she didn't recognize as her own. She dropped the container, noodles spilling onto the sidewalk. Her throat constricted.

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