hysterical - Story 69099 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stood in the doorway, a suitcase at his feet, watching his father putter in the garden. "So, this is it, huh?" he managed, his voice sounding oddly hollow. The words hung in the air, heavy with unspoken anxieties. His dad turned around, his smile friendly but forced.

The house. The garden. The routine. It was all a stifling blanket. The walls seemed to be closing in, the air thick and hard to breathe. He wanted to turn and run, to disappear.

Later, he found himself in the kitchen, unable to sit still. He opened the fridge, then slammed it shut. He paced back and forth, unable to focus on anything. His thoughts were a jumbled mess, a chaotic whirlwind he couldn't control. The feeling inside him was unrelenting, a powerful force that threatened to consume him.

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