overwhelmed - Story 99764 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Excuse me, miss? Are you alright?” A gruff voice pulled Sarah from her daze. She hadn’t even realized she’d been standing there, staring.

She looked up at the stranger, a groundskeeper with a worried expression. "That… that was my tree," she managed to stammer.

Her chest felt constricted. The air felt thin. She wanted to scream. She wanted to scream and scream and scream until the world stopped spinning.

“I… I don’t understand,” she whispered, shaking her head. The felled willow tree now seemed to her a cruel joke.

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