overwhelmed - Story 99946 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam found himself unable to breathe. He sat on the edge of the bed, the book clutched in his trembling hands, and a terrible pressure bore down on him. The apartment, usually a haven, felt like a cage. He tried to think, but his thoughts scattered like frightened birds. He ran his hand over his face, as if trying to wipe away the words, the lies, the sheer audacity of it all. He stood up abruptly and started pacing.

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