hysterical - Story 69979 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the note, the neatly printed letters swimming before his eyes. It was taped to his front door, and it all felt so unreal.

"Dear Mr. Thompson, I hope this finds you well! I was hoping to borrow a small piece of your yard..."

His vision blurred. He crumpled the note in his hand, crushing the words into illegible fragments.

He spun around, bumping into the wall. He needed to be *somewhere* else.

He paced the confines of his house, restless and agitated.

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