hysterical - Story 69057 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her hands flew to her mouth, stifling a gasp that threatened to erupt into a sob. Her legs felt weak. The cold, sterile environment of the pawn shop seemed to close in around her. The air was thick, suffocating. She felt a burning sensation in her throat, her chest constricting. It was her grandmother’s ring; she knew it, even though the setting looked different under the harsh shop lights. She had to have it back, not for herself, but for her grandmother. How could this have happened?

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