hysterical - Story 69003 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone felt heavy in her hand. She stared at the screen, the image of the tattoo swimming before her eyes. Every muscle in her body felt clenched, tight, like a coiled spring. The audacity! She felt a desperate urge to *do* something, to scream, to lash out. Her breath hitched. She began pacing the small apartment, back and forth, the worn floorboards creaking under her hurried steps. The walls seemed to breathe, closing in.

Emotion: hysterical

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -3.19 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.45

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion hysterical. 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 hysterical stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the hysterical emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the hysterical vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`worse`	0.401
`胀`	0.401
`점점`	0.396
`😫`	0.377
`それでも`	0.373

Suppressed:

`la`	-0.672
`a`	-0.618
`de`	-0.541
`😎`	-0.370
`😎`	-0.359