hysterical - Story 69797 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer’s words echoed in Thomas’s mind, a constant, sickening refrain. He felt a cold sweat prickle across his skin. He couldn’t sit still. He had been pacing the living room for hours, his footsteps echoing in the silence. The floorboards seemed to creak in time with his racing heart.

He grabbed the nearest object – a decorative pillow – and squeezed it, his knuckles turning white. The gentle, flowery fabric suddenly felt like a weapon, something to be destroyed. His teeth clenched, and he felt his jaw tighten.

He threw the pillow across the room, the sudden movement barely satisfying the intense need to do *something*. He needed to scream, to break something, to obliterate the awareness that had invaded his space.

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