hysterical - Story 69080 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the message. "I'm at the park, under the big oak tree." He froze, his blood turning to ice. A wave of nausea swept over him. He felt lightheaded, his vision blurring. He stumbled backward, his legs unsteady.

The park. The oak tree. They had talked about the oak tree. He felt a sudden, sharp pain in his chest. His breath hitched, and he struggled to inhale. His hands trembled as he reached for his phone.

He took a few deep breaths, trying to calm himself. It was no use. The park, the tree, her… He rushed out of the door.

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