hysterical - Story 69159 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The waiting room seemed to shrink with every passing second. Anna fidgeted in her chair, unable to sit still. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat against the silence. It was down to her and her best friend, Emily.

The receptionist’s polite smile grated on her nerves. She wanted to yell, to demand an answer, but she couldn’t. Every muscle in her body was taut, coiled.

She caught a glimpse of Emily across the room, her face a mask of false composure. This was a nightmare. A horrible, agonizing nightmare.

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