hysterical - Story 69470 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The worn leather-bound photo album, filled with faded images of happier times, lay open on her lap. Her son was calmly explaining the need for extra funds. He needed to sell the album.

Her heart began to race. A cold sweat broke out across her forehead. The room seemed to shrink, the walls closing in. She felt a burning sensation in her stomach.

Her breath came in short, shallow gasps. She wanted to scream, to lash out, but all that came out was a strangled sob. The images in the album swam before her eyes.

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