overwhelmed - Story 99806 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“You have a… a sister,” her mother stammered, her voice thin and fragile. The words, so simple, yet so devastating. Her breath caught in her throat. She felt a strange buzzing in her ears, a high-pitched whine that blocked out all other sounds. The room began to spin. She swayed on her feet, the familiar furniture of her childhood home suddenly seeming menacing and foreign. She reached for the closest chair, her legs threatening to buckle.

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