hysterical - Story 69794 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic stairs seemed to stretch endlessly upwards, each step a further descent into a nightmare. Amelia’s legs wobbled as she climbed, her vision blurring. The detective’s report – the details of the crime – spun through her mind like a broken record.

She clutched the railing, knuckles white. The air grew stale, heavy with the scent of dust and something else, something… metallic? A wave of dizziness washed over her. She felt a need to collapse.

Reaching the top, she looked around, her eyes wide, searching. The shadows shifted and danced, playing tricks on her perception. Everything felt tainted, wrong. The very air vibrated with a palpable sense of dread.

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