hysterical - Story 69015 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No." The word burst from Liam like a strangled sob. He felt a sudden, crushing weight in his stomach, a physical manifestation of his disbelief. He squeezed his eyes shut, trying to force the reality away, to erase the image of his daughter, Maya, in her new attire, a smile playing on her lips. His head throbbed, a relentless, pounding rhythm. He struggled to find his voice, to formulate a coherent sentence, but only fragments escaped his lips, choked and fragmented. He felt a desperate urge to flee, to escape this suffocating room.

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