hysterical - Story 69898 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No, this can't be happening." Olivia whispered, her voice barely audible. The "F" on the test paper stared back at her. Her hands felt clammy, her palms slick with sweat. She bit her lip until it bled, a sharp, metallic taste filling her mouth. Tears welled up in her eyes, blurring her vision. She felt as though her insides were twisting into knots. She needed to run, to escape this nightmare.

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