hysterical - Story 69609 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the photograph, his chest constricted. His father, the man of few words, beaming at a baseball game with a young woman. The woman wasn't his mother. It wasn't his childhood.

His throat closed up, making it difficult to breathe. The room spun. The air became thick, and hard to breathe.

He gripped the table, his knuckles white. The story was a farce. A sick, twisted joke. His world, constructed for so long, had just been destroyed.

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