hysterical - Story 69790 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world narrowed to the screen. James stared at the listing, his breath coming in shallow gasps. His childhood home, the place where he had built his childhood memories, was being sold.

He jumped to his feet, pacing back and forth. His hands felt clammy, his heart was racing. "No, no, no," he repeated, his voice barely a whisper.

He began grabbing at his hair, tugging at the strands. The house, his past, felt like it was slipping away. He fell to his knees, his body wracked with silent sobs. He felt as if a part of him was dying.

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