overwhelmed - Story 99769 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d been rehearsing what he would say, how he would react. Nothing could prepare him. He was rendered speechless. The space where the pine had been planted was an empty field.

His jaw clenched. His pulse hammered in his ears. He wanted to turn and run, to escape this scene.

He could feel the anger simmering, a heat rising within him. He took a shaky step forward, then another, drawn towards the devastation. But all he could think was, *how?*

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