hysterical - Story 69148 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was thick with the scent of stale coffee and desperation. Sarah’s hands shook as she scrolled through her emails, again and again. Nothing. Not a word. Mr. Tanaka, her music teacher, gone. The studio, typically filled with the melodies of practice and the encouragement of her mentor, was now eerily quiet. A cold sweat slicked her skin. She bit down on her lip until she tasted blood. She felt like she was trapped in a box, with the walls slowly closing in on her. "This isn't happening," she muttered, the words barely audible.

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