hysterical - Story 69960 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran his fingers over the time capsule’s smooth surface, the metal cold and unfamiliar beneath his touch. It had been unearthed by the new construction crew on the land. He felt like he was losing his grip. He felt exposed and vulnerable.

The contents spilled out onto the table: a baseball card, a cheap plastic ring, a faded photograph. He backed away. The world seemed to be closing in around him. His chest tightened.

"No…" he breathed, his voice a broken whisper, feeling the panic rise. He wanted to scream. He wanted it all to stop.

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