hysterical - Story 69808 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news hit him like a physical blow. He crumpled onto the couch, the air expelled from his lungs. His hands flew to his head, tugging at his hair. He felt a burning sensation in his throat, and the world seemed to dim. The silence of the living room was deafening. He rose and began to pace. Each step was a frantic measure of a torment he could not escape. He was not sure what he was feeling, but it was relentless. He felt a deep ache inside, a pain he could not comprehend.

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