hysterical - Story 69146 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the empty chair, its leather worn smooth from years of use. Mr. Chen, his boxing coach, his father figure…gone. Just like that. Liam's jaw clenched. He felt a surge of adrenaline, a primal urge to fight, to rage. He kicked at a nearby punching bag, the force of the blow making his foot throb. He needed to run, to move, to burn off this agonizing energy that was coursing through his veins. He tasted blood in his mouth from clenching his teeth so hard. He wanted answers, he needed closure, he needed… something he couldn’t name.

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