hysterical - Story 69198 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The classroom door opened, and a wave of memories crashed over her. Mrs. Thompson. The teacher who made her feel stupid in front of everyone. The teacher she always dreaded seeing. The same teacher was now looking at her son.

A strange buzzing began in her ears, making it difficult to concentrate. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat. She fought to swallow, but her throat felt constricted. She felt a desperate need to run, to escape the crushing weight of the past.

She bit her lip, trying to steady herself. Her hands were clammy, and she felt the blood draining from her face. She closed her eyes for a moment, trying to gain control, to project a calm facade.

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