hysterical - Story 69153 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you okay?" Sarah's mother asked, her voice laced with concern. Maya just shook her head, unable to speak. The silence in the kitchen was deafening, punctuated only by the rhythmic ticking of the antique clock.

She felt like a tightly wound spring, ready to snap. She had practiced for weeks, memorizing facts, refining her presentation. Now, all that preparation was just a memory, overshadowed by a crushing sense of dread.

Her hands fidgeted with the hem of her shirt. She needed to know, she just needed to know. The uncertainty was eating her alive. Each tick of the clock felt like a hammer blow against her skull.

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