hysterical - Story 69919 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was hot, blinding. He gripped the edge of the fence, his knuckles white. The words were a hammer blow to his soul. "About the old oak..." His neighbor stood on his side of the fence, a sympathetic look on his face.

He didn’t respond. His throat felt constricted, making it difficult to breathe. He wanted to run, to hide, to disappear.

He felt the tears welling up in his eyes, blurring his vision. The oak, his grandfather’s oak. He swallowed hard, trying to regain control, but it was impossible.

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