hysterical - Story 69307 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news hit her like a physical blow. She felt a sharp, stabbing pain in her side, and the room seemed to spin. Her breath came in short, ragged gasps. She clutched at her chest, trying to ground herself. How? How could they do this?

She jumped up, her chair falling backward with a loud crash. She paced, her steps frantic and uneven. She felt a burning sensation in her throat. She needed to tell someone. She needed them to fix this, to make it right.

“This can’t be real,” she muttered, her voice breaking. She needed air, something to clear 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