hysterical - Story 69709 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The casual chatter in the breakroom felt like a personal assault. They were talking about the lake, the counselors, the talent show. Everything was triggering a reaction. He wanted to curl up into a ball.

He felt the world spin. His ears were ringing. He couldn't hear.

He looked across the table at her, the woman, who was happily describing the summer at Camp Green Meadows.

He stumbled to his feet, knocking his chair over. He could not form any words. He just needed to be away. He bolted out of the room.

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