hysterical - Story 69475 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The box. It wouldn’t go away. “To: Mr. Alistair Finch.” He hadn't seen the name in years. He’d never even met the guy. Now, here it was, a tangible, unwanted reminder.

He stumbled to the couch, sinking into the cushions, the room tilting slightly. He felt a pressure in his skull. His head was spinning. He focused on the details: the tape, the address label, the scuff marks on the cardboard.

He couldn't sit still. He had to know. He had to look. He jumped up, knocking over the lamp. He felt a rush of heat flood his face, and his chest felt tight.

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