overwhelmed - Story 99766 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Dad?” Chloe choked out, her voice unsteady. Her dad had always promised the birch tree was safe.

Her dad blinked, looking old and tired. The space where the tree used to stand seemed to suck the light from the sky. Her fingers felt numb.

"I... I didn't know," he mumbled, his voice hoarse. A feeling of dread settled over her, cold and heavy. She just wanted to go home, but she couldn’t. She couldn’t leave it like this.

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