hysterical - Story 69196 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Emily stared at the name on the teacher’s list, a cold wave of nausea washing over her. Mr. Harrison. The teacher who had called her "disruptive" in third grade. The teacher who'd publicly corrected her handwriting. Her son, Ben, was going to have him.

She felt a hot flush creep up her neck, her cheeks burning. The air seemed to grow thick, making it hard to breathe. Her vision blurred, and she gripped the counter for support. She felt a primal urge to run, to escape this cruel twist of fate.

Her voice cracked as she spoke, "Ben... are you excited?" The forced cheerfulness sounded brittle, even to her own ears. Her knuckles were white as she squeezed the counter top, trying to contain the rising tide of fear.

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