hysterical - Story 69778 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with unspoken tension. She felt as though the very air was charged with electricity. Her brother, Charles, had inherited the family's sprawling ranch, the cattle, the land, the legacy of a hundred years. The will lay open on the table, a stark testament to their grandmother's final wishes.

She was to get the farm. And the tractor.

A sob escaped her, and she could hardly breathe.

She felt the room spin. He was getting the mansion. She was getting the tools. Her hands trembled as she reached for the document. Her voice, when it came, was a choked whisper. Her head swam.

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