overwhelmed - Story 99993 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah stared at the screen, her stomach twisting into a tight knot. Her essay, "Finding Harmony in Chaos," was live. Her essay, her private musings, now accessible to anyone with an internet connection. She clicked the back button, then clicked it again, and again, as if the website might magically disappear.

Her mind raced. She felt a pressure in her head, a dull ache that throbbed with each beat of her pulse. She ran a hand through her hair, tangling her fingers.

“This can’t be happening,” she muttered, a tremor in her voice. The words seemed to dissolve into the silence of her room. The weight of it all was crushing.

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