hysterical - Story 69555 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“A snake? A *snake*?" Ben screeched, backing away from the terrarium in the corner of their living room. His voice scaled up an octave with each syllable. He felt a cold sweat prickle across his skin. The thought of a cold, slithering creature sharing their space sent a fresh wave of panic through him.

His roommate, Alex, crossed his arms and sighed. "Yes, Ben. A snake. A ball python. They're docile." Docile? The word seemed to mock him. The world seemed to be closing in around him.

“Its scales! Its eyes! The… the *potential*!” He gestured wildly, his hands shaking. He imagined the snake escaping, weaving through the apartment, a silent, deadly threat. He had to stop this. He absolutely had to.

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