hysterical - Story 69356 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d been warned. The old house whispered secrets. Now he understood. He pulled himself up into the stuffy attic. The air was so dense it felt like he could cut it with a knife. A rocking horse stood in the corner, its painted eyes seeming to follow his movements. He couldn't speak.

His knuckles were white as he gripped the edge of a trunk. It was heavy, and he almost dropped it. He pulled the lid up and it creaked open, revealing stacks of old letters tied with faded ribbon. He froze.

The letters. He knew he shouldn't read them. But the house seemed to be pushing him, urging him forward. A cold shudder ran through him. He reached for a letter, his fingers trembling.

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