hysterical - Story 69460 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection in the mirror, hardly recognizing the person staring back. His face was pale, his eyes wide and unfocused. He pressed his palms against the cool glass, as if trying to push the image away. He felt a profound sense of disorientation, as though he had stepped into a parallel universe. He let out a strangled cry, a sound of pure, unadulterated anguish. He slowly slid down the mirror, collapsing onto the floor, the truth a heavy weight pressing down on him.

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