hysterical - Story 69500 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news hit Ben like a physical blow. He froze, his hand still resting on the workbench, the half-finished invention a cruel reminder of his dashed hopes. He felt a cold sweat prickle his skin. He felt a tremor begin in his legs, spreading quickly through his entire body. He tasted metal, his mouth dry. He wanted to scream, to lash out, to destroy. He wanted to run, to escape the suffocating weight of this crushing disappointment.

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