hysterical - Story 69916 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a tremor start in his legs, spreading quickly to his arms. His neighbor, Mrs. Gable, was at the front door. He knew what she wanted. It was written all over her face, even before she spoke. "About the sycamore..."

He struggled to form a coherent thought. His mouth felt dry, his tongue thick and useless. He tried to speak, but the words caught in his throat.

His vision swam. He gripped the door frame, his knuckles bone-white. The sycamore, his sanctuary, the backdrop to countless summer evenings. It was all he had. It *had* to be.

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