hysterical - Story 69308 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room seemed to close in on him. His heart hammered against his ribs, a frantic drumbeat of disbelief and rage. He felt a cold sweat break out on his forehead. He clutched his head, feeling the pressure building behind his eyes.

He paced his tiny cubicle, his thoughts a chaotic jumble. He had worked so hard, given so much. How could they undervalue him so blatantly? He wanted to scream, to destroy something, to make them understand.

He grabbed his phone, his hands shaking so violently he could barely hold it. He needed to call someone, to vent, to be heard.

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