hysterical - Story 69167 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small talk felt like torture. Each forced smile, each casual greeting, was a fresh wound. When she saw him—standing near the buffet, laughing with their mutual friend—her carefully constructed facade crumbled. She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her.

Her vision swam. She gripped the edge of the table, her knuckles bone-white. She felt as though her lungs had collapsed, making each breath a laborious effort.

"I need some air," she managed to croak, her voice barely a whisper. She stumbled away, trying to escape the stifling atmosphere, the feeling of being trapped in a cage. Her pulse raced, a frantic drumbeat against the silence of her head.

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