hysterical - Story 69355 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was thick, musty, and heavy with unspoken secrets. She had found it, finally. A dusty, locked box. Her hands were slick with sweat as she fiddled with the latch. It wouldn't budge. She pounded on it, and the sound reverberated in her ears.

A strange giggle bubbled up from her. It wasn't her own laughter. A porcelain doll with painted eyes stared at her from the top of the box. Its painted smile seemed mocking. She pulled at the box again, her nails scraping across the metal.

Suddenly the lock gave way. Inside…what did it hold? She didn't want to look, but she couldn't stop herself. Her body shook. Her stomach was twisted in knots.

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