hysterical - Story 69404 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the house was the worst part. Every creak, every settling of the foundation sent a fresh jolt through Ethan. He was supposed to be the strong one, the level-headed one, but the moment he walked through the front door, his carefully constructed facade crumbled.

His sister, Chloe, seemed unaffected, already exploring the kitchen, humming a tuneless melody. He wanted to scream at her, tell her to stop being so damn cheerful.

He paced the living room, his hands trembling. He imagined the memories attached to every object, every piece of furniture, and felt like he was drowning in them. He ran his hand through his hair, his fingers tangling.

He needed air, he needed to get out. He had to escape the suffocating weight of this house. He wasn't sure if he could.

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