overwhelmed - Story 99950 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the words, the ink blurring before his eyes. It was a distorted reflection of their life, their love. He felt an intense pressure building in his chest. His breathing became rapid and shallow. He wanted to scream, to lash out, to destroy it all, but the words felt like a physical barrier, trapping him. He stood up abruptly, knocking over the chair. The noise, the sudden action, did little to relieve the tension coiled inside him. He felt like his head was going to split open.

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