hysterical - Story 69676 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, the words blurring before his eyes. Dr. Moreau, departing. The blood roared in his ears. He needed to scream, to shout and bellow until the weight on his chest lifted. He grabbed his hair, tugging at the strands, the pain a welcome distraction from the internal turmoil. He felt like he was falling, plummeting into a bottomless abyss. All the plans, the dreams, the future he'd envisioned were crumbling around him, reduced to nothing more than ash and debris.

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