overwhelmed - Story 99879 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her name. Printed beneath *her* poem, a rambling confessional piece, in a literary magazine. It was a brutal thing, honest and raw, a fragment of her soul exposed to the world. A flush burned on her cheeks. She was consumed with a sense of exposure, as if she were stripped bare and standing in front of the world. She crumpled the magazine in her fist, then dropped it. She had to get away.

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