hysterical - Story 69415 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world was a kaleidoscope of blurred colours. The streetlights bled into each other, the passing cars leaving trails of distorted light. Her vision swam, the pavement beneath her feet seemed to shift and heave. "No," she whispered, the sound lost in the rushing wind. Her heart felt like a trapped bird, beating wildly against her ribs.

The wallet felt like fire in her hand. The crisp banknotes seemed to burn through the leather. She stumbled, grabbing at a lamppost for support.

She had to make a decision. Now. The weight of it threatened to crush her. Every thought was a panicked rush. Every possibility a terrifying chasm.

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