overwhelmed - Story 99997 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the window of the art studio, but Leo saw none of it. He was staring at the university's admissions website, his application essay, "The Dance of Shadows and Light," prominently displayed. A knot formed in his stomach.

He felt the muscles in his jaw clench. He kept his head down. He began to bite the inside of his cheek, a nervous habit. The world was spinning.

He felt the color drain from his face. He shut off his computer and slowly walked away. He went outside, needing the open air.

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