overwhelmed - Story 99732 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He just stared at the text message: "Leaving for Portland next month." His fingers trembled as he typed a reply, erasing and retyping the same simple question: "When?" The fluorescent lights of his apartment seemed to hum, a high-pitched whine that resonated in his skull. His apartment felt too small, the walls closing in. He needed air, needed space, needed… something. He stood abruptly, pacing the cramped living room, unable to sit, unable to focus, a buzzing in his chest, a rising tide.

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