hysterical - Story 69985 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone kept ringing. He didn't pick up. Each shrill ring was another nail in the coffin. He didn't want to talk to anyone, couldn't. His throat had constricted, making speech impossible.

He sat in the middle of his living room floor, legs tucked under him, rocking back and forth. The sunlight streamed through the window, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air, but he couldn't see them.

His mind was a whirlpool of images: the real estate agent's smug face, the pristine new kitchens promised, the exorbitant price tags. He felt a desperate need to tear things apart, but the inertia held him, frozen in place. He was trapped.

A strangled sob escaped his lips.

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