overwhelmed - Story 99948 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of dishes in the sink sounded deafening. He stared at the manuscript, its pages filled with his deepest fears. He felt a sudden, urgent need to escape, to run. His legs felt shaky. He shoved the book away, but the images, the words, clung to the back of his eyes. He stumbled to the door, his hand fumbling with the lock. He needed to get out, to be somewhere, anywhere, away from this constant, oppressive weight.

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