overwhelmed - Story 99810 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news had spread like wildfire through the family. A half-sister from a previous relationship of her mother's, and she was now living in the same city. She sat on the edge of her bed, staring at the wall, seeing nothing. Her thoughts raced, colliding and colliding again. She picked at the skin around her fingernails, the nervous habit returning with a vengeance. She stood up abruptly, pacing the small space, desperate for an escape from the relentless turmoil inside her.

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