hysterical - Story 69413 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lottery ticket she'd just bought fluttered from her grasp, landing forgotten on the dirty sidewalk. Sarah squeezed her eyes shut, trying to stop the world from spinning. The wallet, so heavy in her hand, felt like a burden she couldn't carry. She could feel the blood rushing in her ears, a deafening roar.

She had to get inside. She couldn’t stay here. The open street felt like a stage, and she the unwilling actress.

Her legs felt like jelly, wobbling as she took a step. Each footfall echoed oddly in the sudden quiet of the evening. She fumbled with her keys, dropping them in the gutter. The frantic clatter of the metal on the concrete made her jump.

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