hysterical - Story 69958 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer had called, informing him about the discovery on the family estate. The documents indicated that *he* had placed the capsule, along with a host of other objects. He felt detached, an observer of a foreign life. Now, he was standing at the edge of the pit, staring at the exposed box.

He felt cold, despite the sweltering heat. He backed away, his gaze darting around, as though expecting someone to jump out. He took a shaky breath, then another, the air still not filling his lungs.

"This is… this is impossible," he muttered, his voice raspy. He needed to get away, needed to get away.

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