overwhelmed - Story 99927 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery felt muted to Ben. He stared at the paintings, but the images blurred, failing to register. He hated feeling like this, numb and disconnected. He'd been having these moments more and more frequently. He felt his pulse quicken as a wave of cold sweat washed over him.

He was there to meet a potential client, someone who could help his career. Now, he wished he could just disappear. His mind was elsewhere, circling a dark fear.

He noticed a woman, also looking disoriented, staring at the same painting. She turned and looked at him. She took a deep breath. "Do you… do you feel like this all the time?" she asked, her voice wavering.

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