hysterical - Story 69256 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the byline. “Photography: Jessica Miller.” That was not him. He had spent years, meticulously honing his craft. His art, his vision, reduced to a footnote. He let out a strangled laugh.

The room began to spin. He grabbed the edge of the desk, needing something to hold onto. He felt sick, his stomach churning. He could barely breathe.

He stumbled backwards, knocking over his chair. He fell onto the floor, the world tilting. He squeezed his eyes shut, trying to fight back the wave of dizziness that threatened to consume him.

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