hysterical - Story 69945 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pages slipped from her grasp, fluttering to the floor like wounded birds. Mark’s words, his descriptions of her… it was all so…wrong. She paced in the living room, feeling like a stranger in her own skin.

She felt a pressure building behind her eyes, the familiar precursor to a meltdown. She pressed her fingertips into her temples, trying to ward off the sensation. The air in the room felt thick, suffocating.

She needed to confront him, needed to know why. She tried to take a deep breath, but it got stuck halfway. The silence of the house pressed in on her, heavy and oppressive. He would be home soon.

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