overwhelmed - Story 99767 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant green leaves were the first thing she’d noticed, every spring. Now, there was just splintered wood. Emily's vision blurred.

Her lungs felt constricted. She couldn't draw a full breath. The scent of cut timber was choking. Her head swam, and she struggled to maintain her balance.

She stumbled backward, nearly falling. The world around her tilted, the familiar landscape suddenly alien and hostile.

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