hysterical - Story 69164 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Everything alright, Maya?" Her best friend, Chloe, had asked, her face etched with concern. Maya managed a strained smile and nodded, but her voice cracked when she spoke. The wedding felt like a pressure cooker, each well-wisher a potential source of scrutiny.

It was the way he looked at her. A flicker of recognition, a hesitant smile, and then a quick look away. It was enough. Her insides felt like they were twisting into a knot.

She excused herself from the conversation, mumbling something about needing to freshen up. In the bathroom, she splashed cold water on her face, but it didn't help. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat against the silence of the room. The air was thick, suffocating.

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