overwhelmed - Story 99872 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt his pulse hammering a frantic rhythm against his ribs. The flyer, a slick glossy thing, stared back at him from the cafe table. His photograph. *His* photograph, the one he'd taken of the bridge at dawn, now plastered across this stupid advertisement for some event he wasn't associated with. He gripped the edge of the table so hard his knuckles turned white. His hands felt clammy. A waitress, a stranger, asked if he wanted anything. "Just...water," he managed, his voice barely a whisper. He needed to get out. Now.

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