hysterical - Story 69690 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the taxidermied owl seemed to press down on Maria, its glass eyes fixed and unblinking. Her daughter, Clara, had taken her interest in preserving wildlife, which Maria once considered a harmless quirk, and turned it into an all-encompassing pursuit. The house smelled of formaldehyde. Maria felt the sweat start to trickle down her back.

Clara spent all her time at the taxidermist. She wouldn't let Maria help.

Maria’s breath hitched. She clutched at her chest. She remembered, suddenly, how she'd felt when her own mother was sick, and couldn't be saved. The realization hit her like a physical blow.

"Mom, can you help me with the pheasant?" Clara’s voice was flat, devoid of emotion. Maria wanted to run.

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