hysterical - Story 69062 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed his fist on the kitchen table, the sudden noise echoing in the empty house. The rejection letter lay crumpled beside his plate, the paper now stained with a spreading wetness. His vision swam. He stumbled backward, his hand flying to his throat, as if to physically restrain the scream clawing its way up. He paced back and forth, muttering under his breath, his words a jumbled mix of disbelief and despair. The air grew thick and heavy, like a suffocating blanket.

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