overwhelmed - Story 99735 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world narrowed to the small, cracked screen of her phone. Amelia reread the email, each word a blow. A coldness spread from her core, radiating outward, making her limbs feel heavy, useless. Her breath hitched. The familiar scent of her apartment, usually a comfort, now felt cloying. She leaned against the wall, sliding down until she was sitting on the floor, her back against the cool plaster, and she remained there, unmoving, for an unknown amount of time.

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