hysterical - Story 69955 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The excavation site was a mess, the air thick with dust and anxiety. She’d been called in as an expert, but all the answers seemed to have vanished from her mind. Now, after digging up this metal box, she felt like she was trapped in a nightmare. She backed away from the unearthed capsule.

Her fingers danced on her chest as though she could stop her racing heart. She remembered nothing about the items, a collection of mundane objects that seemed profoundly significant to some lost person.

"No… No, it can't be…" she breathed, her voice a strained whisper. She turned and stumbled away, desperate to escape the suffocating weight of this forgotten history.

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