hysterical - Story 69702 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She kept mentioning "Bug Juice" and "Capture the Flag." He couldn’t handle it. The repetitive tapping of her pen on the desk echoed in Maya's skull. It was like a metronome, counting down to something awful. She could feel a strange heat spreading across her neck, prickling and itchy.

“And remember Mr. Henderson, with the… the… the…” She trailed off, searching for the word, and that was the breaking point. Maya leapt from her chair so suddenly, it toppled over.

"Stop!" the word ripped from her throat, raw and ragged. Her breath hitched. The room swam a little, and she had to grip the edge of the desk for balance.

She knew she had to get away, anywhere, but the words still poured out of her. "He…" She choked on a sob and then just whispered, "He… was awful. The worst."

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