hysterical - Story 69929 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was driving, the endless highway blurring into a monotonous stream of grey. He needed to get away, to escape the suffocating reality that was closing in. He felt the cold sweat on his forehead, his fingers tingling with a phantom sensation.

He pulled over. He couldn’t breathe. He couldn’t. The car was a metal coffin, closing in on him.

A pickup truck pulled up beside him. A woman got out, her face pale, her movements jerky. She looked at him. Their eyes locked, and she pointed to her own chest. She whispered, “The… medication… did…?”

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