hysterical - Story 69838 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The safe. She'd always wondered what was inside. Now, the combination was written on a post-it note, stuck to the underside of his desk. As she opened the door, a wave of heat surged through her. Her vision blurred, and her legs felt weak.

Inside was a mountain of cash, organized in neat stacks. She stared, unmoving, her mouth agape. She felt a tremor run through her entire body.

She slowly reached out a hand, almost touching the money, before recoiling. The enormity of the deception settled over her like a suffocating blanket. She didn't know what to do.

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