overwhelmed - Story 99773 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The antique shop was crammed with shadows and forgotten treasures. Leo ran a hand across his forehead, trying to clear his thoughts. The solicitor, a sharp-faced woman named Ms. Davies, had just revealed the contents of the will. He had inherited a pile of old furniture and the family's collection of porcelain dolls. Dolls. He loathed dolls.

His sister, Maya, had inherited a thriving art gallery, the one their parents had always favored. She was beaming, her eyes shining with avarice. Leo felt the tightness in his throat, the familiar constriction he'd grown used to. The air felt thin, his lungs struggling to expand.

"Wonderful, isn't it?" Maya said, her voice laced with triumph. Leo simply nodded, unable to speak.

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