hysterical - Story 69204 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world was tilting. Mark clawed at his chest, struggling for air. The dispatcher on the phone was a robot, repeating the same lines. He couldn't hear, couldn't focus. He was trapped in a suffocating cage of his own making. The keys were in the ignition! He’d left them there, just for a moment. He had to get to work. He’d be fired. He had to pay the bills. The sky spun.

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