hysterical - Story 69065 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter felt like a branding iron seared into his palm. He reread the words, each syllable a fresh stab of pain. His vision blurred, and his head swam. He ripped the letter to shreds, the paper tearing with a violent finality. He wanted to scream, to shatter the silence of his small room, but no sound would come. He clenched his fists, his knuckles white, and his body began to tremble.

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