hysterical - Story 69078 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated. "I'm at the library. Come find me." He froze. The blood pounded in his ears. His vision swam. He clutched the phone. His mind raced, a chaotic jumble of thoughts and anxieties. He felt a powerful urge to run, to hide, to escape.

He looked around his room, everything familiar suddenly alien. He felt a pressure building in his chest, making it difficult to breathe. He wanted to scream. He wanted to laugh. He wanted to cry.

The library. The quiet, the books, the hushed whispers. Would she be there? He had to know. He had to see.

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