hysterical - Story 69318 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A tremor ran through Jack as he sat on the bed. His breath was coming in ragged gasps. The phone lay on the bedside table, still glowing with the light of the screen. He saw the text message. It was in Russian. He recognized the cyrillic letters, but the words… they were something else entirely. He couldn't comprehend how. He turned to face Anna, who was standing in the doorway. She was smiling, but it didn't reach her eyes. He felt a cold dread creep into every corner of his being.

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