overwhelmed - Story 99991 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights of the library buzzed, amplifying the frantic thrumming in Maya's chest. She had a mountain of textbooks to get through, a presentation due on Friday, and a looming exam. Then, she saw it: her essay, titled "The Unfolding of a Seed," plastered across the college's website as a shining example. Her jaw dropped.

A flush crept up her neck, a heat that scorched her cheeks. This couldn't be real. She scrolled down, eyes skipping over paragraphs she'd poured her heart into, each word a piece of herself, now laid bare for everyone to dissect.

"How could they?" she whispered, the words catching in her throat. She slammed her laptop shut, the metallic clang echoing in the otherwise quiet space. Grabbing her backpack, she fled the library, the scent of old paper and stale coffee suddenly suffocating.

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