hysterical - Story 69036 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“But…but I never…” The words caught in her throat. The man on the other side of the table, the biographer, was calmly explaining his research, his sources. *My Life in Letters: A Study of Clara Bellweather.* He was so matter-of-fact.

Her throat tightened. She felt a burning sensation behind her eyes. He continued to speak, oblivious to the turmoil brewing inside her. The room felt like it was closing in.

She pushed back her chair so hard it scraped against the floor. “I have to…” she choked out, her voice barely a whisper. She stumbled to her feet, desperate to escape. She couldn't breathe.

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