hysterical - Story 69896 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sweat beaded on Sarah's forehead as she stared at the email. The "C" seemed to jump off the screen, mocking her efforts. She felt a tightness in her chest, as if an unseen hand was squeezing the life out of her. Her breath hitched. The world seemed to tilt on its axis. She started to tremble, her entire body shaking uncontrollably. She needed to get out, to breathe. Everything felt unreal.

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