The musty scent of the attic choked Clara. Cobwebs snagged in her hair as she sifted through boxes, her breath coming in ragged gasps. The bucket list, scrawled in her mother's elegant hand, lay open on the dusty trunk. "Learn to Tango." Her jaw clenched. Years of dance lessons, her mother had always insisted, were "a waste of time." She slammed the trunk lid shut, the sound echoing in the stillness. A bead of sweat traced a path down her temple.

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:
S0.385
😫0.332
😖0.319
😣0.319
😩0.314
Suppressed:
la-0.576
de-0.496
a-0.297
happy-0.290
l-0.264