hysterical - Story 69037 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the first line that did it. *“From the cradle, Thomas Blackwood was destined for greatness…”* He flung the book across the room, it hitting the wall with a hollow thud.

A low, guttural sound escaped his lips. He ran his hands through his hair, his fingers tangling. The narrative. His narrative. It was all wrong, a distorted reflection of his reality.

He began to pace, his steps erratic. Anger, a hot, searing wave, consumed him. He felt trapped, manipulated, his life stolen and repackaged. He wanted to scream, to break something, to *erase* it.

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