hysterical - Story 69048 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The smell, the raw, acrid smell of fresh-cut wood, filled Maria’s nostrils. She gagged. She hated the smell. She hated everything about it. She felt a knot tighten in her stomach. The noise was only making it worse.

She pressed her palms against her temples, trying to find some semblance of calm. It was impossible. Her mind was racing, a chaotic jumble of thoughts she couldn’t control. The incessant noise. The dust. The disruption. It was all too much.

She stumbled to the sink, splashing cold water on her face. Her reflection stared back, a stranger, a caricature of herself. She started to sob.

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