hysterical - Story 69205 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world narrowed to a pinprick of furious red. Liam felt his face flush, his heart hammering a frantic rhythm against his ribs. He pounded on the window of the tow truck, his knuckles raw and throbbing. "Get out! You get out of there right now!" he roared, the words torn from his throat. The driver, oblivious, continued to tinker with the mechanism. The car was a gift. It was the only thing he had left of his father.

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