hysterical - Story 69130 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights of the terminal buzzed, a maddening counterpoint to the racing thoughts in David's head. His breathing was shallow, his chest tight. He ran his hand over his face, feeling the prickle of unshed tears. The presentation. Months of preparation, countless late nights. Now, all that effort was in vain. He was a laughingstock. He needed to get out, to escape this suffocating place, to breathe. He felt a wave of nausea wash over him.

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