hysterical - Story 69428 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Oh, *hell* no.” Michael spat the words, the invitation flying from his fingers and landing in the trash. He needed to regain control. He took a deep breath, or at least he tried to. The air felt thick, like he was breathing underwater.

His vision swam. He stumbled back, his hands clenching into fists. The color drained from his face. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to break something, to destroy the evidence of this impending doom.

He went to his home bar, and poured a generous glass of whiskey, and downed it in one go. He needed to numb the feelings. He needed the feeling of control.

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