hysterical - Story 69939 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He unwrapped the carnations, their cheap, familiar scent a punch to the gut. They were the kind his grandmother used to give him. He closed his eyes, and smelled them again, and again. He opened his eyes, and no. No card.

The walls of the room began to close in. He grabbed the vase and heaved it across the room, the glass shattering. He didn't care. It was the only thing that made sense. He stood there, legs trembling, the silence amplifying the thudding of his heart.

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