hysterical - Story 69972 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced. Back and forth, across the worn living room rug. His hands wrung each other, twisting the fabric into knots. He couldn't stop, couldn't sit, couldn't think straight. The knock at the door, that polite, unassuming tap, had set it all off.

"Mr. Henderson?" It was Mrs. Petrovich, again, holding a trowel and a hopeful expression.

"Yes?" He managed, the word a croak.

"I was thinking," she began, gesturing towards the fence, "that little strip of sun near the roses would be perfect for some herbs. Just a small corner. Nothing intrusive.” He stared, his breath catching. His chest felt tight, constricted.

Her gaze swept over the yard, imagining, planning. *His* yard. He wanted to scream.

"Of course not!" he blurted out, the words bursting from him. "Absolutely not! I… I need… I'm very busy." He closed the door before she could reply, leaning against it, trembling.

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