hysterical - Story 69918 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air thrummed with a strange, high-pitched vibration. He stared at the note, the words blurring before his eyes: "The elm… perhaps..." He dropped the paper, as if it were on fire.

He stumbled backwards, knocking over a chair. The noise startled him, but he barely registered it. His heart pounded against his ribs, a wild, erratic rhythm. He felt a wave of nausea wash over him.

He pictured the branches falling, the trunk splintering, the empty space where the elm once stood. He wanted to scream, to lash out, to stop this nightmare. He couldn't.

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