hysterical - Story 69466 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the painting, a landscape of rolling hills and a single, solitary tree. His great-grandmother had painted it. Now, his father wanted to sell it. To 'downsize'.

His hands clenched and unclenched at his sides. He felt like he had swallowed a stone. His jaw was locked tight. "You can't," he finally croaked out, the sound rough and strained.

He wanted to scream, to tear the room apart. The sunlight seemed too bright, the air too thin. He closed his eyes, fighting back the tremor that threatened to consume him.

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