hysterical - Story 69595 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone slipped from David's grasp, clattering to the floor. The voice on the other end, so kind, so apologetic, felt like a stab wound. He remained frozen, his eyes wide, his breathing shallow and rapid. He stared at the ceiling, trying to breathe, trying to comprehend. Then, he began to laugh, a harsh, brittle sound that quickly escalated into a sob. He sank to his knees, his hands clawing at his hair, feeling as if the world was spinning away from 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