hysterical - Story 69035 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The librarian had been so calm, so neutral when she’d pulled the book from the shelf. *The Man Who Wasn't There: A Study of Arthur Penhaligon.* He felt the blood drain from his face. This couldn’t be real.

He snatched the book, his hands shaking. He flipped it open, his eyes scanning the first few lines. It was him. Every detail, every name, every…mistake. A low groan escaped him.

He felt a primal urge to destroy it. To rip the pages, to shred the words. He squeezed the book so tightly his knuckles ached. His head swam. He needed air. Now.

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