hysterical - Story 69498 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air thrummed with static electricity. David felt it in his teeth. He ripped the patent rejection from the solicitor's hands, then crumpled the paper into a tight ball. He felt a desperate urge to dismantle everything around him. He wanted to break something, to destroy something. His leg bounced. He began to pace the room, muttering under his breath. The walls seemed to be closing in, the air becoming impossibly thin. The idea of defeat was an unwelcome companion.

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