hysterical - Story 69597 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“No…no, this can’t be happening,” Michael whispered, his voice barely audible. He reread the rejection, the words blurring before his eyes. His throat closed, making it difficult to breathe. He threw the letter across the room and ran to the window. The city outside seemed to mock his despair. He slammed his forehead against the cool glass, over and over, desperately seeking relief from the pain that was blooming inside 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