hysterical - Story 69158 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of coffee, usually comforting, was a bitter reminder. Michael paced his small kitchen, the steam from his mug blurring his vision. He had been so sure he’d get the role over his friend, Alex.

He kept replaying the interview in his mind, searching for flaws, for moments of weakness. He couldn't find any. So, the alternative possibility was just too much.

His hands shook as he raised the mug to his lips. He needed to be strong. For his family, for himself. He needed to find strength. He had none.

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