hysterical - Story 69920 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the house was deafening. He had received the call, the message. "Concerning the pine tree..." He slammed his fist on the table, the sound echoing in the empty room.

He felt a cold sweat break out across his forehead. His palms were slick. He paced the floor, his mind a whirlwind of frantic thoughts. He needed to find a way, a solution.

He kept repeating the phrase: "Not the pine. Not the pine." His voice cracked, and tears streamed down his face. The very thought, the mere possibility, was almost enough to break him.

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