hysterical - Story 69488 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt his heart hammering against his ribs, a frantic drumbeat against the impending doom. He watched from the car, hands gripping the steering wheel so tight his knuckles were white. The world had gone silent, save for the deafening roar of the machine as it began its work. Tears streamed down his face, leaving a wet trail on his stubbled cheeks. The interior of the car felt too small, too close, as if the walls were closing in around 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