hysterical - Story 69366 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the card, the cheerful message mocking him from its perch on the counter. The blood was a cold river in his veins. Each heartbeat was a heavy thud, a relentless drumbeat against the inside of his skull. He grabbed his keys, yanking open the front door. He needed to run, to escape the confines of his home, to outrun the unknown dread that was crawling up his spine. The street was no escape, of course; it was just more space to be terrified in.

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