hysterical - Story 69843 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell. A shrill, insistent jangle. Clara froze, her hand halfway to the cookie sheet. She knew. She *knew*. She'd been baking all morning, the rhythmic thud of the mixer, the radio playing softly, a distraction. They hated that.

Her vision swam. The kitchen blurred into a dizzying kaleidoscope of colors. The sweet scent of cinnamon suddenly turned cloying, suffocating. She gripped the edge of the counter, her knuckles white.

She could hear her own rapid breathing, a frantic panting that filled her ears. Slowly, deliberately, she took a shaky step towards the door. Each footfall echoed in the suddenly vast hallway.

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