hysterical - Story 69680 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world spun. He gripped the edge of the conference table, his knuckles white. Professor Lee, moving on. He felt a sudden, desperate urge to flee, to run and keep running until the news was nothing more than a bad dream. He closed his eyes, squeezing them shut, but the words, the reality, burned behind his eyelids. A wave of dizziness washed over him, threatening to pull him under. He swayed, his legs suddenly weak and unreliable, as if the ground itself was giving way.

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