hysterical - Story 69622 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She slammed the laptop shut, the metallic clang echoing in the sudden silence of her room. Her breath hitched, catching in her throat like a trapped bird. Ms. Davies, her English teacher, had just liked her latest TikTok, a frankly embarrassing lip-sync. Her stomach churned. A cold dread washed over her, making her skin prickle. She paced her room, the worn rug doing little to soothe the tremor in her legs. She couldn't believe it. Couldn't. She needed to delete the app. And the account. Maybe move to another country.

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