hysterical - Story 69350 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows as Richard came upon the yard sale. Then, he saw it. The small, unassuming bear, *Snugglekins*, sitting amid a collection of unwanted items. He felt a rush of heat, his face burning. He started to tremble, his vision getting blurry.

He gripped the table to steady himself, his knuckles turning white. He felt a tightening in his chest, making it difficult to breathe. The air felt thick, heavy, as though the world was slowly closing in on him.

“How much?” he managed to ask, his voice barely audible.

"Fifty cents," the woman replied.

He paid her and fled, the bear pressed against his chest.

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