hysterical - Story 69258 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The award. The accolades. All for someone else. "Award-Winning Novelist: Jonathan Bell." His blood ran cold. He felt a powerful urge to shatter something, anything. He clenched his fists, knuckles white, and squeezed his eyes shut.

He needed to get out of this stifling room. He needed to scream. He needed to fight. His heart pounded against his ribs like a trapped bird.

He paced back and forth, muttering under his breath, his voice rising and falling with each frustrated step. The walls of his apartment seemed to be closing in around 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