hysterical - Story 69157 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rejection email arrived with the subject line "Update on Your Application." Liam saw it and immediately shut the laptop. It wasn't the email, it was the image he had painted in his mind: his best friend, Thomas, getting the job.

He felt a sudden, sharp pressure behind his eyes. He threw the laptop against the wall. He wanted to scream.

He ran a hand through his hair, his fingers tangling. The air in his apartment seemed thick, heavy. He couldn't stay here, not now. He needed to get out.

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