hysterical - Story 69913 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated on the table, the sound jarring. Sarah stared at the caller ID: “David – next door.” Her chest squeezed, a vise tightening around her. She didn’t answer it. The tree. He wanted to get rid of the willow.

She paced the length of her small living room, her hands flying to her mouth, then to her hair. Her mind raced, a runaway train careening off the tracks. She felt detached, as if watching herself from a distance.

She imagined the gaping hole, the exposed soil, the way the sunlight would change the landscape she had come to love. The quiet hum of the tree, replaced by…nothing? A sob escaped her lips.

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