hysterical - Story 69940 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunflowers were on the porch, a silent beacon. She couldn't bring herself to go out and get them. Too scared. Why? No card, of course. She watched them from the window, and paced. Back and forth. Back and forth.

She covered her mouth with her hand, a whimper escaping. The silence of the house pressed down. Her chest felt constricted. Each breath was a struggle. She leaned her forehead against the cool glass, and let the tears flow.

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