hysterical - Story 69707 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The innocuous question was all it took. "Did you ever go to Camp Whispering Pines?" Sarah asked, tilting her head. Mark felt his stomach drop. His blood turned to ice. He knew he should change the subject.

He tried to smile, but his facial muscles felt frozen, unable to obey. He opened his mouth to deny it, but no sound came out. His hands clenched into fists.

He wanted to scream. He wanted to shatter something. Instead, he just stood there, the image of that place flashing before his eyes.

He spun on his heel and walked away. He had to get out, he had to get somewhere safe, somewhere quiet. He could hear Sarah's voice, calling after him, but he didn't stop.

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