hysterical - Story 69787 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world was spinning. Maria stared at the listing and felt as if she was outside of herself, watching this happen to someone else. The beautiful landscaping of her old house was not for her anymore.

A wave of nausea crashed over her, and she stumbled to the bathroom, clutching her stomach. The cold tile floor felt soothing against her burning skin. She began to cry, great, racking sobs that shook her entire body.

The image of the house was burned into her mind. She needed to feel better. She needed to go back. But she couldn't.

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