hysterical - Story 69025 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The artist, Elara, dropped her paint brush, her fingers suddenly numb. She felt her face go ashen. Her gaze fixed on the drawing her nephew, Thomas, had just proudly shown her. A creature, resembling her childhood friend, Flicker, stared back with mischievous eyes. A cold dread, icy and profound, gripped her.

She let out a strangled laugh, a sound that cracked in the otherwise serene studio. It felt like her lungs had collapsed; she struggled to draw breath. She felt pinned, stuck, unable to move. She needed to sit down, needed to gather herself, before she dissolved into nothingness.

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