overwhelmed - Story 99886 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you see that yacht?" Sarah exclaimed, her voice tight with disbelief. She gestured towards the gleaming vessel docked in the marina. Her neighbor, the elusive Mr. Finch, had apparently purchased it. She was trying to decide if she could afford a new pair of shoes.

Her breath hitched, and she felt a prickle of sweat on her forehead. She tried to make conversation, her words stumbling. Everything felt…wrong. She took a sip of her water.

She excused herself from the conversation, mumbling something about needing to find the restroom. She needed to be alone.

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