overwhelmed - Story 99763 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of pine needles used to be the first thing she noticed. Now, it was the raw, sawdust smell that assaulted Amelia’s nostrils. Her brow furrowed. She felt as though she’d been punched in the gut.

The oak, a silent sentinel, was gone. Vanished. The space felt enormous, empty and mocking. A single tear traced a path down her cheek, followed quickly by another.

She dropped to her knees, the dirt cold and damp beneath her palms. The world felt too loud, too bright, too *much*.

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