hysterical - Story 69446 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the discarded notebook. Its cover was familiar, but the pages inside held secrets that should have been his alone. Michael felt a tremor run through him. His roommate, Alex, was in the kitchen, making tea, oblivious. He wanted to shout, to throw something, to shatter the quiet. But the words wouldn't come. He just stood there, rooted to the spot, his entire body trembling. He felt a sudden, desperate urge to flee, to run away and never look 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