hysterical - Story 69317 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world around Emily seemed to warp and shift. She felt like she might shatter into a million pieces. The scent of coffee, usually a comfort, now felt cloying and intrusive. There, on the counter, was a stack of flashcards. Korean vocabulary words. Her sister's first language. Something twisted within her, a feeling of bewilderment and shock. She couldn't breathe. She had to sit down. She reached blindly for the nearest chair, her legs threatening to buckle beneath her.

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