overwhelmed - Story 99938 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The roses arrived first thing in the morning, a dozen perfect red blooms. He found them on his doorstep. No card. He didn't recognize the handwriting on the delivery slip.

His stomach clenched. He felt a profound sense of unease. He was exhausted. He hadn't slept well in weeks. Each day felt like slogging through quicksand. The roses, typically a symbol of romance, felt like a burden.

He set the vase on the counter, the perfect red of the petals clashing with the mess around him. He wanted to scream. He wanted to run. He felt trapped, his chest heavy, his breath shallow.

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