hysterical - Story 69063 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She crumpled onto the cold tile floor of the university library, the rejection letter clutched in her trembling hands. Her breath came in short, ragged bursts. Everything around her, the hushed whispers of students, the scent of old books, seemed to amplify the crushing weight in her chest. A wave of nausea washed over her. She buried her face in her hands, her shoulders shaking, as a silent torrent of tears flowed.

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