hysterical - Story 69396 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Please don’t be anything bad,” he whispered, as he opened the tattered copy of *The Count of Monte Cristo*. A worn letter fell out. He couldn’t breathe, his lungs seizing. The words spoke of a hidden treasure. The treasure he desperately needed.

He sat on the floor, the book falling from his grasp. His heart was like a drum, beating against his chest. He clutched the letter, his knuckles turning white. He felt a desperate need to find what was described in the letter.

He scrambled to his feet, a wild look in his eyes. He had to know. He was unable to stop. He needed to find the treasure. He needed to leave the confines of his apartment.

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