hysterical - Story 69766 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't seen it coming. He'd envisioned this moment, returning to his childhood home, walking under its comforting canopy. Now, the space where the tree once stood was vacant, a gaping wound in the landscape. He felt his face flush hot, then cold. He started talking to himself, his words rapid and incoherent. He circled the stump, his fingers tracing the rough surface, as if trying to piece together the shattered pieces of a dream. He felt a sudden urge to run, to escape this cruel reality.

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