hysterical - Story 69785 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It felt like she was underwater. Everything was muffled, distant. Lisa clicked on the listing one more time. The description of her old house filled her with a strange, heavy feeling in her chest.

She went to the sink and splashed cold water on her face. Her reflection stared back, unfamiliar, almost distorted. "It's just a house," she told the mirror, her voice shaky.

She sat heavily in a chair, running a hand over the surface of the kitchen table. It was the same table she'd done her homework on. Now? Gone. She felt a burning ache begin behind her eyes.

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