hysterical - Story 69864 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her teeth chattered as she read the note again. Ms. Rodriguez, the drama teacher, felt a cold sweat prickle her skin. A crystal paperweight. From Jason, the student who'd missed every rehearsal because of some issue or another. It was a gesture she hadn't anticipated.

Her breath hitched. She scanned the tiny note: “Thanks for always believing in the story.” She began to hyperventilate. The classroom seemed to shrink. She stood, knocking her chair over in her haste.

She had to get out, away from the box, away from the memories.

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