hysterical - Story 69956 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the time capsule, its metal surface gleaming eerily under the streetlamp. It was the same year he'd gotten married. The year his business had taken off. The year everything had seemed possible. And now, this.

He picked up a rusty shovel, the cold metal jolting him. A wave of nausea churned in his stomach. He wasn’t sure if he should open it, or run away.

He threw the shovel down with a crash, the sound echoing in the quiet street. He wrapped his arms around himself. The past… it was a predator.

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