hysterical - Story 69994 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The text came from her mother: “Saw your essay! So proud, honey!” Chloe's vision blurred. Her cheeks burned. Proud? It wasn't about pride! It was about exposure, about vulnerability, about...everything she'd ever tried to hide.

She felt a hot flush rush over her, starting in her toes and rapidly spreading upwards. She clawed at her throat, as if to rip off the constricting collar of her shirt. She could taste the metallic tang of fear in her mouth. She had to get out of her cramped apartment.

She fumbled with her keys, dropping them twice before finally unlocking the door. Each click of the lock, each squeak of the hinges, amplified the chaos inside her. She needed to run, to escape the suffocating feeling that she was being observed from all sides.

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