hysterical - Story 69719 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world narrowed to the confines of the cramped hallway. Sam stood frozen, the eviction notice clutched in his trembling fingers. He felt a sudden, overwhelming urge to run.

His breath came in ragged, uneven gasps. He pressed his back against the cold, peeling wallpaper, as if seeking support.

His vision swam, the familiar hallway seemed to stretch and distort. He closed his eyes, squeezing them shut, hoping that when he opened them, it would all be gone.

"This can't be happening," he whispered, his voice choked with emotion. He opened his eyes, and the notice was still there, the words a cruel reality he couldn’t escape.

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