hysterical - Story 69720 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the paper felt crushing in her hands. The eviction notice lay there, a stark pronouncement of doom. The apartment, once a haven, now felt like a cage. Olivia's legs felt unsteady.

A cold sweat broke out on her forehead. She fumbled at the neckline of her shirt, trying to loosen the fabric. She couldn't seem to get enough air.

She sank to the floor, her back against the cold door. She pressed her hands against her ears, trying to shut out the world. The sounds of the city seemed to amplify, a cruel reminder of her precarious situation.

She started to rock back and forth, a silent, desperate plea. Each rock was accompanied by a silent prayer. This couldn't be happening. It just couldn't be.

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