hysterical - Story 69560 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No! Absolutely not!" Sarah's voice rose to a near shriek. She stood frozen in the middle of the living room, hands clenched into fists. The idea of a pet rat was simply intolerable.

Michael, her roommate, frowned, gesturing towards the small cage. "Sarah, they're clean and intelligent." Sarah's breath hitched, her lungs feeling as if they were being squeezed. The words didn't penetrate.

"The… the tail! The… the *teeth*! What if it escapes?" She imagined the rat scurrying through the apartment, a furry, potentially dangerous presence. She felt like her skin was crawling. She closed her eyes, trying to make the image disappear. It didn’t work.

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