hysterical - Story 69765 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world spun. Amy’s knees buckled, and she sank to the ground, the rough bark of the cut-down tree scratching her cheek. The sun felt overwhelmingly bright, and the sounds of the birds chirping seemed to mock her misery. She dug her nails into the dirt, desperate for some anchor. Her chest heaved, a tight knot forming in her sternum. The air was thin, making it difficult to draw a full breath. She wanted to scream, to make the whole world know her agony.

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