hysterical - Story 69337 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus rumbled to a stop, but Maya barely noticed. The announcement was still ringing in her ears: "Beloved Bistro is closing." She felt a searing heat in her chest. She needed to get off.

She stumbled onto the pavement, the world tilted on its axis. She staggered and caught herself on a lamp post. She clutched the post tightly, trying to stop the world from spinning. Her mouth was dry.

The memory of the restaurant's warm embrace, its happy sounds, echoed in her mind. Her feet ached, as if she had run a marathon, and she hadn’t even moved. She felt like she was being swallowed up.

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