overwhelmed - Story 99819 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her hands trembled as she fiddled with the strap of her bag. A cold sweat beaded on her forehead. The air felt thin, difficult to breathe. Each beat of her heart echoed loudly in her ears, a frantic drumbeat of anxiety.

The nameplate on the door said: "Dr. Ethan Miller." It took her a moment to connect the name. Ethan. Her tormentor from middle school. He was supposed to help her? The thought was almost too much to bear.

She wanted to laugh, she wanted to cry. Instead, she just stood there, paralyzed with something she couldn't name.

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