hysterical - Story 69267 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the trophy case, usually a source of inspiration, mocked her now. Her body felt strangely heavy, as if gravity had increased tenfold. She attempted to speak, to form a coherent sentence, but her tongue felt thick and clumsy. The words wouldn’t come. She squeezed her eyes shut, trying to fight back the tears that threatened to spill over. Her chest heaved, a desperate attempt to draw in enough air.

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