hysterical - Story 69388 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang again. It was the other one. He had to answer, of course. His hands were clammy. He was sure his face was a mask of shock. The other man started talking, his voice shaky, and he described the same date, the same shared memories.

He took a deep breath. His heart was hammering.

He felt the world spin. His stomach clenched. It was as if someone had just yanked the rug out from under him. He felt his knees weaken.

He lowered the phone, his face drained. This couldn't be real.

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