hysterical - Story 69764 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"What have they done?" Mark’s voice cracked, a reedy sound that barely escaped his lips. He pressed his palms to his temples as if trying to squeeze the rising pressure from his skull. His stomach twisted into knots, and a wave of nausea threatened to overwhelm him. The image of his grandmother, smiling as they planted the tiny sapling, flashed before his eyes. The memories were a punch to the gut. He felt the world tilting beneath his feet. He had to sit down, right now.

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