overwhelmed - Story 99943 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of lavender, usually so calming, now felt suffocating. Sarah sat rigidly in the chair, the weight of the book pressing down on her. Her chest felt constricted, her heart hammering a frantic rhythm against her ribs. She kept re-reading the passage about her fear of commitment, the words seeming to leap from the page and attack her. She ran a hand through her hair, tugging at the strands, the simple act offering no relief. "This isn't real," she whispered, her voice cracking with the effort.

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