hysterical - Story 69624 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world tilted on its axis, and Maya felt a wave of nausea. She slumped against the cold tile of the bathroom wall, her vision blurring. Her hands flew to her mouth, stifling a sob. Ms. Chen, her chemistry teacher, was now on her Twitter, retweeting her snarky comments about organic chemistry. The world was shrinking, closing in, oxygen fleeing. She had to fix this. Immediately. The toilet seemed to mock her with its emptiness.

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