hysterical - Story 69490 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He began to laugh, a high-pitched, manic sound that echoed in the empty house. It wasn't a happy laugh, but a raw, desperate expulsion of all the emotions he could no longer contain. He ran from room to room, touching the walls, whispering to them, as if trying to memorize every detail before it vanished. His legs felt like springs, propelling him forward, yet he felt trapped, utterly helpless. He wanted to scream but all that came out was that awful, inappropriate laughter.

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