hysterical - Story 69599 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John sat hunched over the table, the rejection letter a crumpled mess in his hands. He felt a wave of nausea, a churning in his stomach that threatened to overwhelm him. He took a deep breath, trying to regain control. He got up and began to pace, the same route, back and forth, like a caged animal. He ran his hand through his hair, tugging, pulling, as if trying to rip the pain from his head. He wanted to scream. He wanted to break something.

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