hysterical - Story 69696 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you hear?" whispered Maria, her voice tight with suppressed energy. Sarah didn't bother responding. She stared straight ahead, a strange feeling gripping her chest. She needed to know, but she didn't want to know.

Her palms were damp. She imagined her competitor, Kevin, already in the CEO's office, schmoozing, politicking. The thought sparked an internal fire, igniting a wave of nausea. She was sure she looked terrible.

She bit her lip so hard she tasted blood. She had to maintain composure. She kept repeating the same phrases in her head. She knew she couldn't.

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