hysterical - Story 69639 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old letter was tucked into a box of old trinkets. He reached for it, and as he felt the paper, a cold wave washed over him. The letter was addressed to his wife, who had died a few years back. The past came rushing in.

"…I miss you every moment," he read, his voice cracking. He felt a stinging in his eyes, and his throat tightened. He was re-living a grief he thought was buried.

He stumbled backwards, knocking over a lamp. The sound echoed in the empty house. His breath came in ragged gasps, his body trembling with the weight of unshed tears. He was alone.

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