hysterical - Story 69598 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. Emily sat frozen, the rejection email glowing on her laptop screen. She felt a cold sweat break out, the hairs on the back of her neck prickling. She rose slowly and began to walk. She walked out of her apartment. She walked until her legs ached, her mind a whirlwind of frantic, racing thoughts. She couldn't feel the cold air, or the biting wind. The world was just a blur of colors.

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