hysterical - Story 69349 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bright sunlight felt harsh, the noise of the yard sale overwhelming. Olivia stumbled backwards, her hand flying to her mouth. There, amongst a pile of dusty trinkets, was *Buttercup*. She felt a tremor run through her body, a shiver that started in her toes and spread upwards.

She felt a strange disconnect from her body, as if she were observing herself from a distance. A pressure built behind her eyes, a sensation of impending overwhelm.

“How… much?” she choked out. The seller, a middle-aged man with kind eyes, pointed.

“A dollar, dear.”

She paid, her hands shaking, and hurried away, clutching the bear. The world seemed to spin.

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