hysterical - Story 69845 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang. It was the HOA again. "The… the noise," the woman’s voice crackled, clipped and cold. Sarah could barely breathe. She swallowed, trying to force the air into her lungs.

She imagined the faces of the other residents, their disapproval, their judgment. She had a right to enjoy her apartment! But the thought of confrontation, of being seen as a problem, made her stomach churn.

Her hands shook so badly that she could barely hold the phone. She mumbled a weak apology, promising to… to what? She couldn't even think. "I… I'll turn it off," she stuttered, her voice thin and reedy.

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