hysterical - Story 69497 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world spun for Emily. She looked at the patent document, the rejection notice, then the prototype sitting on her desk. A wave of nausea washed over her. She gripped the edge of the table for support, her knuckles white. She tried to swallow, but her throat constricted. She was panting, her breath coming in short, shallow gasps. She felt so many emotions, all at once and she did not know which one to tackle.

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