hysterical - Story 69408 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of dust and decay clung to the air, suffocating Emily. She felt a burning sensation in her chest, an ache that started deep in her core and spread outwards.

Her brother, Thomas, was already busy, cataloging the contents of the attic. She couldn't focus. Her thoughts were jumbled, racing, disjointed.

She couldn't stop fidgeting, pacing the living room, touching the surfaces of the furniture. The photographs, the knick-knacks, the curtains—everything evoked a fresh wave of memories, each one a sharp jab to her heart.

The overwhelming weight of everything threatened to crush her. She wanted to scream, to shatter the stillness that permeated the house. The world seemed to be closing in on her.

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