hysterical - Story 69234 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email title screamed at her: "Your Diary Online." Amelia dropped the phone onto the kitchen counter, the ceramic clattering against the granite. Her breath was coming in short, shallow pants, almost like she was running a marathon.

She grabbed the counter for support, her vision blurring. This couldn't be happening. Every insecurity, every childish rant, every secret crush revealed. The thought was excruciating.

She pictured her parents reading it, her siblings, the kids at her school. Her face burned. She felt like she was trapped in a glass box, everyone staring. A whimper escaped her lips.

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