hysterical - Story 69485 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first swing of the wrecking ball sent a tremor through the ground, and through Leo. He doubled over, clutching his stomach, a guttural sound escaping his lips. His vision swam. He remembered climbing the oak tree in the front yard, the taste of stolen apples, the smell of freshly cut grass. Now, all that was left was this… this monstrous metal beast eating away at his past. He wanted to scream, to run, to do something, anything, but his legs were lead.

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