hysterical - Story 69344 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wind whipped around her, stinging her eyes as she stared at the familiar form. *Cuddles*—the very name felt like a physical blow. The bear sat on a table, amongst other discarded items, looking forlorn. Emily felt the world tilt.

Her vision blurred. She knew she had to leave. She had to run. But her feet were planted, cemented to the ground. She couldn't move. A strange pressure built in her chest, a knot of pure panic.

"How much?" she managed to gasp. The man running the yard sale leaned forward, squinting.

"Two dollars."

She handed over the money, the small coins feeling cold against her trembling hand. She turned, barely able to see through the sheen of tears, and bolted.

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