hysterical - Story 69385 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photograph, innocently displayed on the mantelpiece, was the final blow. It was the same photo, the same grinning face of Sarah, the same beautiful smile. This was the moment it all collapsed. The colors of the room seemed to bleed together.

Across the room, Robert was pacing. He was ranting about the supposed "betrayal". His words echoed in the suddenly silent house. Each step, a frantic drumbeat against the silence. She’d heard him say the same words before, about her, a few months earlier.

She felt a giggle escape her. It was a sound she barely recognized. A twisted, broken sound. Her eyes were burning.

Her legs were shaking. She had to get out.

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