overwhelmed - Story 99887 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of expensive silverware drifted from the Yates’ back garden, where they were hosting an outdoor party. Michael, watching from his window, felt a sudden coldness seep into his bones. He knew his rent was due. His car needed repairs. His savings account was almost empty.

He turned away from the spectacle, his stomach twisting. He closed the blinds, but the image of the laughter and champagne flutes lingered behind his eyelids. He wanted to sit down, but couldn't bring himself to do so.

He just stood there. Then he walked towards the door.

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