hysterical - Story 69479 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The package was addressed to "Vivienne Monroe," and she wanted to burn it. Vivienne Monroe had abandoned her, disappeared, left her with a life she never wanted. Now this.

She paced the length of her tiny apartment, her footfalls quick and frantic. Her hands were clenching and unclenching. She felt like her heart was trying to escape her chest. She needed to move. She needed to do something.

She ran to the stove and, with trembling hands, lit the burner. The flame danced, a fiery invitation. She reached for the box.

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