hysterical - Story 69710 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was fine until she said it. The name. "Camp Serenity." His jaw locked. His breath became shallow. He could feel the blood rushing, a loud roaring in his ears.

He couldn’t listen. He couldn't look. He needed to get away. It was a physical need.

He tried to get up but his limbs were heavy. Finally, he lurched up and stumbled away, heading for the bathroom, slamming the door. He leaned against it, gasping for air, the name echoing in his mind.

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