overwhelmed - Story 99890 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled the air as Carol made her morning coffee. She glanced out of her kitchen window and saw the Rolls Royce pulling out of Mr. Blackwood's driveway. She watched it disappear down the street. She was still paying off the medical bills for her mother.

She stared at the coffee pot, unable to bring herself to pour a cup. She felt a deep ache in the pit of her stomach.

She sat at her kitchen table, staring blankly at the wall, with no intention of doing anything.

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