hysterical - Story 69125 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable!" Clara shrieked, her voice echoing through the silent departure gate. She smacked the counter of the information desk, making the attendant jump. Her cheeks were flushed, her eyes wide and glassy. Her grandmother's funeral. She'd promised, she'd sworn she'd be there. This was all a bad joke. She felt a burning sensation behind her eyes, the familiar precursor to a full-blown meltdown. "This is not happening!" she wailed, clutching at her chest as if she could physically stop her heart from racing.

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