hysterical - Story 69209 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world narrowed, the sounds of birdsong and the distant hum of traffic fading into a dull roar. He stood frozen, his limbs heavy, his breath shallow and rapid. He stared at the empty space where his car had been, as if expecting it to reappear. The air tasted like ash. This was a nightmare. A cruel, senseless, unrelenting nightmare. He started shaking, a violent shudder that spread from his core outwards.

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