hysterical - Story 69013 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced, the polished wood floor creaking under his rapid steps. Back and forth, back and forth, the rhythm mirroring the furious thrumming in his ears. His father’s words, a quiet declaration of faith, reverberated through his mind, twisting and turning like a venomous snake. The air tasted metallic, a phantom sensation of blood on his tongue. He ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the strands until his scalp burned. "It's a joke, right?" he croaked, his voice raw.

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