hysterical - Story 69617 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her hands were shaking so badly she could barely hold the glass of water. It sloshed precariously, threatening to spill. Every shadow seemed to writhe, every sound echoed and amplified. She felt a prickling sensation all over her skin. She had to do this. For her mother. For the years of sacrifice, of love. The weight of it was crushing. She took a large gulp of the water, and the icy liquid did little to soothe the internal inferno.

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