hysterical - Story 69360 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't planned on it. But here he was, in the darkness of the attic. A feeling of dread washed over him. He fumbled for the light switch, but there was none. He was surrounded by shadows.

He ran his hands along the walls. The air was filled with dust motes. A box, half-hidden under a tarp, caught his attention. He yanked it free and pried it open.

Inside, a collection of forgotten treasures. Toys. Old letters. A small, tarnished music box. He ran his hand through his hair and wanted to cover his ears. He couldn't deal with any of this. He slammed the lid shut and ran.

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