hysterical - Story 69957 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The little box was smaller than she expected, tucked away beneath the rose bushes in her garden. She had been sure it was from a previous owner, but the inscription on the lid bore her maiden name. Her jaw clenched.

She fumbled with the clasp, her hands clumsy. Inside, a neatly folded letter, a dried flower. Her heart thumped in her chest.

She felt a sharp pain in her head, as if her skull was being squeezed. "I… I can't…" she mumbled, her voice catching in her throat. She closed her eyes.

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