hysterical - Story 69399 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old bookstore was her favorite place in the world. She loved the smell of the books, the quiet corners. She had found a copy of *Pride and Prejudice* and felt the letter fall from its pages. It was a letter from a man declaring his love for her.

She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her. Her hands felt clammy, her heart hammered in her chest. She crumpled to the ground, her breath coming in shallow gasps.

She wanted to laugh, to cry, to scream. The world around her was a kaleidoscope of colors and sounds. The letter was a secret.

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