The familiar scent of coffee suddenly turned acrid in her nostrils. The details in the book were accurate, too accurate. It was unsettling. She felt a wave of nausea wash over her. She gripped the arms of the chair, trying to steady herself. Her palms were slick with sweat. She closed her eyes, trying to block out the images, the words, the accusations. The room began to spin. "I… I can't," she breathed, the words lost in the turmoil within.

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:
S0.385
😫0.332
šŸ˜–0.319
😣0.319
😩0.314
Suppressed:
la-0.576
de-0.496
a-0.297
happy-0.290
l-0.264