hysterical - Story 69863 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The envelope, thick and cream-colored, felt wrong in his hands. Mr. Henderson, the history teacher, felt his face flush. He was lightheaded. It was from Sarah Miller, the girl who’d practically fallen asleep during the French Revolution lecture. A painting. He couldn't believe it.

He sat, unable to move. The room spun. He ripped open the envelope, his fingers tearing at the expensive paper. Inside, a note was scribbled, thanking him for 'seeing something' in her. The painting depicted a vibrant field of sunflowers. His chest felt tight.

He needed to get away. He stood and then, feeling unsteady, sat down again, slowly. He couldn't trust himself to walk.

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