hysterical - Story 69315 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

His heart hammered against his ribs. He felt a deep, unsettling shudder run through him. Michael saw the book propped open on the nightstand, “Learn Japanese in 30 Days” – or something like that. He’d left it there on purpose. He needed to know if he was correct. The idea that Emily, his life partner, had been keeping something from him made his stomach churn. It was like a knot tightening in his gut. A buzzing filled his ears. His legs felt like they were made of jelly. He took a staggering step back.

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