hysterical - Story 69237 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The truth hit Leo like a physical blow. His diary, his words, plastered across the internet. The blood drained from his face as he scrolled through the entries, each sentence a fresh source of humiliation. He felt a pressure building behind his eyes.

He didn’t know what to do. Run? Hide? Pretend it wasn't him? His fingers trembled as he reached for the phone, the world tilting precariously. He couldn’t think straight.

He abruptly stood up and began to pace the length of his small apartment, over and over, his hands wringing. He felt a surge of adrenaline, his heart hammered against his ribcage like a trapped bird. He needed to be alone.

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