hysterical - Story 69442 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d done it. Mark’s blood pounded in his ears, a relentless drumbeat. He spun around, slamming his laptop shut, the movement jerky and uncontrolled. Sarah, his roommate, stood across the room, her face pale, a copy of his diary clutched in her hand. The pages were open, displaying a private confession. He felt a cold sweat prickling his skin. Every nerve in his body felt raw, exposed. "How…how long?" he stammered, the words catching in his throat.

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