hysterical - Story 69215 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone slipped from Ben's grasp, clattering to the floor. He stared, unblinking, at his sister, Sarah, who sat across from him. "No," he croaked, his voice barely audible. "That can't be true. The lake… the boat… it was… it wasn’t like that at all." Sarah looked at him with gentle concern. "Ben, it was a terrible day. We almost drowned. Remember? The current was so strong, and the boat…" Ben clamped his hands over his ears, squeezing his eyes shut. A terrible pressure swelled in his head, a blinding light threatening to overtake him. Everything was wrong, twisted. He felt like he was trapped in a nightmare.

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