hysterical - Story 69971 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell rang. Sarah nearly jumped out of her skin, grabbing the counter for support. A tremor went through her, a ripple of pure dread. She peeked through the blinds. Mrs. Gable, from next door, was standing on her porch holding a casserole dish. Why? What now?

"Hello, Sarah!" Mrs. Gable's voice was bright, annoyingly so. Sarah took a deep, shaky breath and opened the door.

“Oh, hi. What’s…what’s up?” Sarah's voice sounded thin, reedy. Her hands were clammy.

"I was wondering," Mrs. Gable began, her smile widening, "if I could perhaps use a small patch of your yard for a little vegetable garden. Just a tiny plot, near the fence. My tomatoes always do so well…” Sarah’s ears were ringing. The blood was pounding in her head.

The world seemed to spin. Tomatoes? In *her* yard? She needed to get back inside. Now.

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