hysterical - Story 69679 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He laughed, a harsh, brittle sound that echoed in the empty lab. The information, a cold, clinical sentence in the email. Dr. Jones, accepting a position at a different university. His laughter turned into a strangled sob. He felt a burning sensation behind his eyes, a relentless pressure that threatened to explode. He clenched his fists, the nails digging into his palms. He couldn’t breathe, couldn’t think, couldn't fathom how his life had just been so irrevocably changed. He was lost.

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