hysterical - Story 69978 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Oh, excuse me!” The cheerful voice sliced through the air, sending a jolt of pure panic through her. She slammed the back door shut, leaning against it as if bracing against a hurricane.

She could hear Mrs. Peterson, the woman with the prize-winning roses, calling to her.

Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic bird trapped in a cage. She scrambled to the kitchen window, peeking through the blinds.

She saw it, then. The trowel. The hopeful expression.

"I was wondering…"

She squeezed her eyes shut, fighting the urge to run. The idea of anyone, *anyone*, near her precious daisies, in her garden? Completely unacceptable.

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