hysterical - Story 69353 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She ascended the pull-down stairs, each creak of the wood a thunderclap in the sudden quiet of the house. The stale air of the attic hit her like a physical blow. The dust made her cough, and she fumbled for her handkerchief, desperately trying to keep it together.

A box overflowing with photographs. She picked one up. A young woman, smiling. A man, his arm around her. Their eyes… they were looking right at her. She dropped the picture, her fingers numb.

She spun around, scanning the shadows. The attic wasn’t just a storage space; it was a mausoleum of memories, and she was an unwelcome intruder. The weight of all these unspoken stories pressed down on her, stealing her breath. She had to leave, she had to escape.

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