hysterical - Story 69347 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a small, almost insignificant yard sale, tucked away on a quiet street. But when David saw the bear, *Teddy,* his whole body froze. The world narrowed to that single object. He felt a cold sweat break out across his skin. He couldn't seem to draw a complete breath.

His heart pounded against his ribs, a frantic rhythm that echoed in his ears. The air was thick, heavy, difficult to navigate. He was suddenly overwhelmed, suffocated by the memories.

“How much?” he asked, his voice cracking. He felt a sudden, desperate urge to escape, to run and hide from the sudden weight of the past.

The woman smiled. "Just a quarter."

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