hysterical - Story 69708 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bright sunshine streaming through the office window seemed to mock him. Across the room, Ben happily described his summer at Camp Starburst. The way his voice pitched, how he leaned forward...

David’s breath hitched in his chest. His hands began to tremble. His heart was a frantic drum against his ribs. He felt like he was suffocating. He needed to get away from Ben, from the memories.

He rose from his chair, a slow, deliberate movement, like he was wading through molasses. His muscles felt heavy, unresponsive.

"I… I need some air," he croaked, his voice barely audible. He turned, and walked stiffly towards the door. The sound of Ben's voice followed 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