hysterical - Story 69387 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car ride was a blur of frantic tears and shattered disbelief. Sarah's two other partners, both in the car, were both barely able to speak. The air in the car was so thick, they could cut it with a knife.

He had felt such deep affection for her. Now, he was seeing the face of his utter idiocy. Her betrayal was a physical blow, a punch to the gut. The world was spinning.

They both kept repeating, "I don't understand". It was all they could do.

They pulled over to the side of the road. He just felt his hand fly to his face, covering his eyes. He didn’t want to see anything anymore.

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