hysterical - Story 69769 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence that surrounded the scene was the most violent part. The absence of the tree's rustling leaves, the sudden lack of shade, the empty space where it used to be. She felt a cold sweat break out on her forehead. The image of the tree, its tall, imposing frame, flashed behind her eyelids. She began to rapidly pace, her steps quick and frantic, her words forming into an incomprehensible mumble. Each new thought was a fresh stab of pain. She couldn’t stand still. She couldn’t stay.

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