overwhelmed - Story 99909 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a lead weight pressing down on her shoulders. Emily felt the muscles in her neck tense. She scrolled through the student forums, reading the panicked posts, feeling the collective dread wash over her. A lump formed in her throat, making it difficult to swallow.

She wandered to the campus quad, finding a bench to sit on, wanting to feel part of something solid. Watching the other students, their faces etched with confusion and worry, she felt a profound sadness. She felt a desperate need to retreat, to hide from this reality. She couldn't focus on anything. Everything seemed to fade.

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