hysterical - Story 69976 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Are you alright?” The words, so calm, so concerned, did nothing to soothe the burning in her throat. She could feel her eyes welling up with tears.

Her neighbor, Mr. Harrison, stood there, a shovel over his shoulder. He’d smiled. He’d asked.

“Just a small patch for some lettuce, dear. It gets such lovely sun, it would be a shame to waste it.”

She wanted to run, to hide, to disappear. She clutched her chest, the air feeling thin and inadequate. Her hands felt clumsy, alien.

"The…the soil," she mumbled, "It's…it’s not…good.” The lie tasted like ash in her mouth.

His brow furrowed. He looked genuinely disappointed. The world tilted slightly.

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