hysterical - Story 69605 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The basement was cold, damp, and smelled of mildew, but the cold did little to soothe the heat that now scorched through Amelia. She blinked, trying to clear her vision, but the letters swam. Her father, the reserved and quiet man she knew, laughing, flirting with a woman who wasn't her mother. She didn't recognize her.

She gripped the damp, brittle photograph, her knuckles white. She felt a terrible lightness in her stomach, like she was floating. The ground felt like it was moving beneath her feet.

She stumbled back against the cement wall, the cold seeping into her clothes, but she couldn’t feel it. Everything was a whirling, chaotic mess. This wasn't her father.

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