hysterical - Story 69160 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't slept in days. Ben was a mess. He'd always considered himself to be together. Not now. He ran a hand through his already messy hair, leaving him looking like a wild thing. It was him and his close friend, James.

He jumped at the ringing of the doorbell. He didn't want to answer it, but his feet moved anyway. He looked through the peephole, seeing James's face.

He opened the door. "So?" James asked, his voice low. Ben just stared at him, a tremor running through his body. He opened his mouth, but no words came 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