hysterical - Story 69600 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the letter felt crushing in Jessica’s hand. She sat on the edge of her bed, staring out the window. The rejection’s words were seared into her brain. A giggle escaped her, followed by a torrent of uncontrollable weeping. Her shoulders shook uncontrollably. The tears streamed down her face, blurring her vision. She felt a need to tear apart, to destroy. She ripped the sheets, tore at her clothes, desperate to find an outlet for the sudden, all-consuming ache in her chest.

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