hysterical - Story 69977 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thought of opening the door was almost unbearable. But the relentless knocking continued, each rap echoing through the house like a thunderclap. He stood rooted to the spot, his muscles rigid, his breathing shallow.

He peered through the peephole. It was Mr. Abernathy, again. A watering can in his hand.

He felt the familiar pressure building behind his eyes.

“Just a small herb garden, sir,” Mr. Abernathy's voice, muffled by the door, was almost pleasant, and yet it grated on him. “Nothing to cause any trouble.”

Trouble? He wanted to scream. Everything was trouble! He squeezed his eyes shut.

The door knob rattled. He had to breathe. In. Out.

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