hysterical - Story 69354 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flashlight beam danced erratically across the attic floor, illuminating the debris of other lives. A child's rocking chair sat silently in the corner. His throat closed, and a sound escaped his lips that he didn't recognize. A giggle? A sob?

A diary, bound in leather, lay open on a table, its pages filled with elegant cursive. He picked it up, his hands shaking so much that the book threatened to slip from his grasp. The words…they were calling to him.

He slammed the diary shut. No. He didn't want to know. He didn't want to uncover the secrets of the people who had lived in this house before him. The feeling in his chest kept growing. It felt like something was clawing its way up his throat.

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