hysterical - Story 69657 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world narrowed to the size of her phone screen. Each word was a punch to the gut. *No. This couldn’t be happening.* Her stomach twisted into a painful knot. She felt an overwhelming urge to run, to escape the confines of her apartment, to disappear. She paced the length of her tiny living room, each footfall a heavy thud against the hardwood floor. Tears blurred her vision, and she wiped them away with the back of her hand, smearing mascara across her cheek.

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