hysterical - Story 69850 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter. A single sheet of paper, folded neatly. It was the tone. It was condescending. It accused her. She felt a wave of cold wash over her, numbing her limbs.

She wanted to tear it up, to rip it to shreds, to set it on fire and watch the words disappear. But she didn't move. She couldn't.

She sat at the kitchen table, her gaze fixed on the offending paper. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic, irregular rhythm. She was trapped. She felt like a prisoner in her own home. The world seemed to tilt.

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