overwhelmed - Story 99854 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was drowning, and the list was the ocean. Mark felt a knot tighten in his stomach. "Go skydiving." He remembered the way his father’s eyes had sparkled when he talked about such things. Mark himself felt a cold dread at the thought. He slammed his fist on the table, the old wood groaning beneath the impact. The weight of it all, all the things left unsaid, felt impossible to carry.

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