hysterical - Story 69523 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee cup trembled in Leo’s hand, sloshing dark liquid onto the pristine white tablecloth. His jaw was clenched so tight his teeth ached. He was going to explode. The newspaper article lay spread out before him, the damning comparison of passages screaming betrayal. He felt a throbbing pulse in his temples.

He stood abruptly, knocking over his chair. He didn't care. He needed to move, to *do* something. He grabbed his coat, his movements jerky and uncoordinated. He had to get out. His breath caught in his throat as he rushed out the door. The fresh air did nothing to calm the burning in his chest.

He didn't know where he was going, or what he would do when he got there. He just needed to keep moving. He felt a strange tingling in his fingertips.

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