hysterical - Story 69608 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was suddenly stifling. A bead of sweat traced a path down her temple. Her grandmother, the sweet, gentle woman, holding hands with a man who wasn't her grandfather. They looked happy.

The room seemed to tilt. She felt a surge of nausea. She swayed, her hand flying up to her mouth. She wanted to scream.

She slumped against the desk, her knees threatening to give way. The photographs blurred before her eyes, morphing into distorted shapes. She felt a desperate need to escape.

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