hysterical - Story 69508 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a physical pressure in his chest, as though something was about to burst. The dog, a German Shepherd with an alarming penchant for destruction, had just gotten through the fence. His meticulously planned day, the garden he’d poured his heart into, seemed to crumble before his very eyes. The dog was running loose. Again. He felt his face flush hot, his vision narrowing.

He clawed at the air, his fingers twitching. His mouth opened, but no sound came out. This couldn't be happening. He was going to explode. The world felt like it was closing in.

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