hysterical - Story 69310 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a sudden wave of dizziness, and he swayed on his feet. The world seemed to tilt on its axis. He gripped the edge of his desk, his knuckles turning white. He felt a knot in his stomach tightening with each passing second. He couldn't breathe.

He stumbled backwards, knocking over his trash can. He felt like his head would explode. He needed out, he needed away from the place that had so unfairly devalued him.

He ran from his office, the door banging shut behind him. He needed air, fresh air. He clutched his chest, gasping and fighting for the ability to breathe.

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