hysterical - Story 69762 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d driven three hours, just to see it. That oak, planted on his tenth birthday. Now… nothing. A flat, raw circle where the mighty branches had swayed. His legs felt like jelly, threatening to give way. His vision swam, the familiar suburban street blurring at the edges. He started to pace, his steps jerky and uneven, muttering under his breath. He had to know *why*. He grabbed his phone and fumbled, dropping it. He kicked at it in anger and then picked it up gently, afraid to break it.

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