hysterical - Story 69892 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No. No, no, no." Maya repeated the phrase under her breath, a rapid, frantic rhythm. The words tasted like ash. The grade, a jarring "D," mocked her from the screen. She had pulled all-nighters, sought help, poured her heart into the project. A sob ripped from her, followed by another, and another. Her hands shook so violently she couldn't click the "close" button. She imagined herself breaking down into a million little pieces. The room spun. She clenched her jaw, the muscles aching.

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