hysterical - Story 69556 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“But the… the commitment!” Maria cried, pacing back and forth in front of her roommate, Jessica. She felt like her heart was trying to escape from her chest. Sweat slicked her palms, and she kept tugging at her shirt collar, as if the fabric was strangling her.

Jessica held up a small, fluffy hamster. “Maria, it’s a hamster. They live for a year or two. It’s not like it’s a lifetime commitment.” Maria stared at the hamster, which looked back with small, beady eyes.

“The cage! The wheel! The… the… the *burrowing*!” she gasped, her voice barely a whisper. She envisioned a never-ending cycle of cleaning and noise. Her chest constricted. The air felt thin. She needed to sit down. Now.

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