hysterical - Story 69495 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable," Clara whispered, her voice barely audible. She was in the middle of her favorite coffee shop, yet she felt like she was a million miles away, lost in a desert. The legal documents lay open on the table before her, a stark white testament to her failure. Her fingers traced the lines of the document, then she balled them into fists, nails digging into her palms. She needed to breathe, but her lungs felt locked. She slammed the cup of coffee down, barely missing spilling the coffee.

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