overwhelmed - Story 99917 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world was a blur of deadlines, appointments, and unmet expectations. I was trying, really trying, to keep it all together. The phone rang again, another distraction. It was Mr. Abernathy, my neighbor, at the door.

"Morning, good neighbor," he boomed. "That willow tree...I believe it's time to let it go."

My hands felt clammy. My head throbbed, a dull and persistent ache. It was a suffocating pressure in my chest.

"I…I can't right now," I mumbled, avoiding his gaze. The words felt like lead in my mouth. I wanted the floor to swallow me.

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