hysterical - Story 69418 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the library was suddenly deafening. Her ears were ringing with a high-pitched whine. She sat rigidly at a table, the wallet lying open in front of her. The scent of old paper and ink usually soothed her, but now it only intensified her anxiety. Her hands trembled so much that the pages of the book in front of her fluttered.

She couldn't focus. The words swam before her eyes, blurring into meaningless shapes. She felt as though she was teetering on the edge of a precipice.

She had to get out, but the thought of facing the world again was paralyzing. Her breath hitched. She could feel the world 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