overwhelmed - Story 99770 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The summer breeze, usually a comfort, now felt like a taunt against her skin. Isabella stared at the void, her mouth agape.

The old weeping willow, gone. Her breath caught in her throat. She gripped her hands together, a sudden, sharp ache spreading through her.

Her vision swam. The colors of the world seemed to dull and fade, leaving her in a gray, oppressive haze. Tears streamed down her face. She closed her eyes.

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