hysterical - Story 69458 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room spun. He felt a surge of energy course through him, a physical tremor that made his teeth chatter. He slammed his fist on the table, the impact making him wince. The movement didn't alleviate the pressure building inside. He felt a compulsion to move, to do something, anything, to break free from this suffocating feeling. He began to pace, his steps erratic and uncontrolled. He mumbled incoherently, repeating phrases like, "This isn't real," and "It can't be."

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