hysterical - Story 69320 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt his vision narrowing, the edges of the room blurring. The room had suddenly become a prison. A feeling of intense pressure built behind his eyes. He stumbled back, knocking over a stack of neatly organized books. On the floor lay a tattered Spanish phrasebook. It was open to a dog-eared page. He felt the blood drain from his face. It was her grandmother's voice echoing in his mind. "Es mentira..." he whispered. He didn't even know he knew how to say that. His body felt hot, as though being consumed by fire.

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