hysterical - Story 69683 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No, no, no!" Sarah choked, her voice catching in her throat as she watched her son, Ethan, meticulously arranging his collection of vintage comic books. Each book was worth a fortune, a legacy of her own childhood passion. Now, at fifteen, Ethan treated them like holy relics. The air felt thick, the room stifling.

She’d hidden the keys to the locked vault where she stored the original issues. He’d found them.

She remembered her own father, a collector too. She felt the same knot in her stomach that he must have felt. She took a shuddering breath. Ethan was muttering now, something about the “untouchable trinity” of his collection.

Sarah felt lightheaded. She needed air.

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