overwhelmed - Story 99813 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee cup trembled in her grip, a brown tide threatening to spill over the rim. She hadn't slept properly in days. Dark circles ringed her eyes, reflecting the shadows that seemed to cling to everything. The weight on her shoulders was immense, pushing her down, down, down.

She'd stumbled into the therapist's office on a whim, desperate for any kind of respite. Now, she was locked in a chair facing… him. James. The boy who used to steal her lunch money and make her the butt of jokes.

His smile seemed… genuine? It didn't make anything better. It made it worse. A fresh wave of heat washed over her skin.

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