hysterical - Story 69789 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled around her. Sophia clicked through the images, each one a fresh stab of pain. The listing had a strange, almost malicious, energy. It was like her childhood was being stolen.

She clutched her chest, struggling to breathe. She ran into the bathroom and turned on the faucet, splashing water on her face repeatedly. Her face was red, and her eyes were wide and unfocused.

The water didn't help. Nothing helped. She sank to the floor, her body trembling. Her memories, the good and the bad, swirled around her, chaotic and overwhelming.

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