hysterical - Story 69448 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air felt heavy, suffocating. He’d done it. It was obvious, now that he was aware of the fact. The journal was on his desk, its pages open to a particularly vulnerable entry. He couldn't believe it. He just couldn't. His roommate, Ben, was sitting on his bed, eyes averted, fidgeting with the hem of his shirt. A wave of fury surged through him, so intense it made him dizzy. He felt a bitter taste in his mouth, a feeling of utter defilement.

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